"When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God's blessing. But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that field and burn it." (Hebrews 6:7)
Your life is your crop. You are the farmer. What you produce will be your choice. What are you planting? What are you watering your life with?
The ground on which you will plant and grow your crop is the foundation you have chosen to build your life. This foundation could be solid, firm, and rich, or it could be malleable, weak, and poor. It could be absolute—something that is guaranteed to be the same—or it could be conditional—something that changes with time, culture, laws, and feelings.
Whatever it is you want your life to be, you will grow from that foundation. Thorns and thistles and rotten fruit, or ripe fruit and good crops?
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it is the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
David Allan Coe
The outside structure of your life might look wonderful to the observer; you might have huge wealth, fancy cars, expensive suits, go to all the fancy parties, and vacation throughout the world, but without that solid foundation, your life will produce thorns in your side and thistles that will keep true relationships from forming and push people away.
When the rains come, and rest assured they will, will your life produce blessings (good fruit) or will it reveal thorns and thistles (bad fruit)?
Will you be able to stand firm and hold to unshakeable values, or will you be washed away with the ever-changing values of a weak and malleable foundation?
"Knowing and understanding our foundation allows us to live in wisdom, value life, stand firm, have faith, know hope, and take courage in our lives. Not knowing or understanding our foundation can create in us a hypocrite who pretends to be for something one day and changes their mind the next; we might never find the beginning of wisdom; we might never truly value life; we would sway with the wind of whispers in our ears, mind, and heart; we would increase the chance of living in the shadows apart from hope; and we would risk never comprehending or appreciating our virtue of who we truly are."
Josh C. Jones, Volume I: The Foundation to Your Success
(That's the book title right now.) (It is in the queue to be published.)
We will all harvest a crop, whether it is positive fruit or negative thorns. The question is, What crop will you harvest?
We all build from a foundation: where did life come from? What's the purpose of life? Is there a purpose, or is it all random? What is good and evil, or are they just social constructs of randomness? Who is right and who is wrong? How do we know? What is morality? What are ethics? What is...anything, really? Does life even matter?
If your foundation is firm and absolute, then you know that life does matter.
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