A solid foundation allows us to go higher

The Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world, has a very deep foundation

1 Corinthians 3:11-14 (Modern Translation of the Wycliffe Bible):

For no one can lay another foundation other than what has been laid, which is Christ Jesus. For if anyone builds with gold, silver, precious stones, sticks, grass, or stubble upon this foundation, every man’s work will be exposed, for the day of the Lord will reveal it. And it will be revealed using fire.

The fire will test each person’s work, revealing what sort of work it is. If anyone’s work which he built upon that foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

God wants us to establish a foundation for His Kingdom.  The deeper the foundation, the higher we can go once God finally gives us His “building permit”.

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We become like the idol we worship

Psalms 135:15-18 (LITV): 

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands;

they have mouths, but they say nothing;

they have eyes, but they see nothing;

they have ears, but they hear nothing;

yea, there is no breath in their mouths.

Those who make them are like them, everyone who is trusting in them. (more…)

Satisfied with what I have

By concluding that profit is piety, their souls are corrupt and are deprived of truth. Stay away from such people.  

It is true that piety with sufficient provision is a great advantage, for we brought nothing into this world and are certain that we cannot carry anything away with us.

But let us be satisfied to have food and what we need to clothe ourselves.

For those who want to become rich fall into temptation and into the trap of the devil, and into many unprofitable and harmful desires which drown men with death and ruin.

For the root of all evil is covetousness. (more…)