In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1).
Everything has a beginning; everything has a foundation. The beginning
of a thing will tell how it will be sustained and how it will end. If
a marriage relationship, a project or a ministry has a faulty
foundation, the chances are that sustaining that venture would be
tortuous and it may also end badly. The way a thing is begun could
tell what kind of rewards will follow it, and how enduring those
results would be. It is very correct to say that what you put into the
foundation of a thing will determine what that thing will give back to
you. As we take a very brief look at the subject of foundation, we
shall limit ourselves to the first clause in today's scripture verse -
"IN THE BEGINNING, GOD".
It is true that the Bible says "Better is the end of a thing than the
beginning thereof" (Ecclesiastes 7:8). But for that statement to be
realisable, the beginning of that thing must also be good enough to
provide a solid platform for a better ending. For as another Bible
verse implies, if the foundation of a thing is faulty, even the
righteous has very limited options to make a success of that thing -
whatever it is. That is why everyone of us should recheck the
foundations of the various life projects we are engaged in. The good
news is that something can be done about it if we discover we have
faulty foundation.
In the beginning, God.... The question to ask as we seek to reevaluate
our foundations is: In the beginning of whatever you are engaged in,
who or what was there? When you started out on that venture, was God
involved? If God was not involved, then you started wrongly.
Restitution and making things right should be your next lines of
action. If you are going in the wrong direction, you can never end
right except you change direction. That you have gone very far and for
so long a time, that you have invested so much into the process, or
the fact that people will mock you if change direction - all that
would be foolish excuses to continue building on a wrong foundation.
Wisdom says that you should make amend.
There was a young man in the Bible who's conduct best explains what I
am talking about. He had embarked on a journey in which God was not
involved. When he realised that he had made a terrible mistake, he
took a U-turn and went back to get things right. He did not try to
patch things up as most of us do. He did not explain away his
predicament. He simply did what was needful and got his life back on
track. They call him 'the Prodigal Son', but I think it would be more
appropriate to call him 'the Sensible Son', for the bigger lesson of
his life was not his prodigality, but his ability to come back to his
senses and make amend.
Friends, that is what we should do as well. May the Lord help us to be
sensible. And I say AMEN for myself.
of a thing will tell how it will be sustained and how it will end. If
a marriage relationship, a project or a ministry has a faulty
foundation, the chances are that sustaining that venture would be
tortuous and it may also end badly. The way a thing is begun could
tell what kind of rewards will follow it, and how enduring those
results would be. It is very correct to say that what you put into the
foundation of a thing will determine what that thing will give back to
you. As we take a very brief look at the subject of foundation, we
shall limit ourselves to the first clause in today's scripture verse -
"IN THE BEGINNING, GOD".
It is true that the Bible says "Better is the end of a thing than the
beginning thereof" (Ecclesiastes 7:8). But for that statement to be
realisable, the beginning of that thing must also be good enough to
provide a solid platform for a better ending. For as another Bible
verse implies, if the foundation of a thing is faulty, even the
righteous has very limited options to make a success of that thing -
whatever it is. That is why everyone of us should recheck the
foundations of the various life projects we are engaged in. The good
news is that something can be done about it if we discover we have
faulty foundation.
In the beginning, God.... The question to ask as we seek to reevaluate
our foundations is: In the beginning of whatever you are engaged in,
who or what was there? When you started out on that venture, was God
involved? If God was not involved, then you started wrongly.
Restitution and making things right should be your next lines of
action. If you are going in the wrong direction, you can never end
right except you change direction. That you have gone very far and for
so long a time, that you have invested so much into the process, or
the fact that people will mock you if change direction - all that
would be foolish excuses to continue building on a wrong foundation.
Wisdom says that you should make amend.
There was a young man in the Bible who's conduct best explains what I
am talking about. He had embarked on a journey in which God was not
involved. When he realised that he had made a terrible mistake, he
took a U-turn and went back to get things right. He did not try to
patch things up as most of us do. He did not explain away his
predicament. He simply did what was needful and got his life back on
track. They call him 'the Prodigal Son', but I think it would be more
appropriate to call him 'the Sensible Son', for the bigger lesson of
his life was not his prodigality, but his ability to come back to his
senses and make amend.
Friends, that is what we should do as well. May the Lord help us to be
sensible. And I say AMEN for myself.
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