What is your foundation?

6/19/20 What is your foundation?

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Proper 7 BCP 230)

"The wise man built his house upon the rock,
the wise man built his house upon the rock.
The wise man built his house upon the rock
and the rains came tumbling down.

The rains came down and the floods came up,
the rains came down and the floods came up.
The rains came down and the floods came up,
and the house on the rock stood firm."

This popular Sunday School song is based on the parable about the wise and foolish builders from the Gospel of Matthew. The song and the parable point to one small difference between the houses built by the wise man and the foolish man, the foundation. The wise man built his house on rock whereas the foolish man built his house on sand. When the rains and floods come, the wise man's house stands firm, while the foolish man's house (and this is the most popular moment of the whole song) goes SPLAT! 

The Collect for this coming Sunday speaks about being set on the sure foundation of God's loving-kindness. Being set on the sure foundation of God's loving-kindness means trusting in God's goodness, steadfastness, love, and grace. When set on God's foundation, we are not living out of our own earthly worries and fears, we are living out of God's abundance in the world. With the world's problems rising up as a great flood these days, we need to be set on God's sure foundation of loving-kindness. Otherwise, we might just go SPLAT! I pray that we may all set ourselves on God's sure foundation of loving-kindness, that we may endure the rains and the floods and the storms of our earthly world. 

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