Building on the Foundation

  If you’re shooting a rifle at a target a thousand yards away, you’ll never hit that target if you’ve got your sights or crosshairs on something else that’s only a hundred yards away and far off to your right or left. And if you’re driving a car down a narrow, one-lane road, you’ll drift off the road if you fix your gaze on everything off to either side and not on the road. So it is in our walk with God. We can’t stay on the narrow path or reach the goal of His Kingdom if our focus is elsewhere. Yeshua/Jesus told us not to worry about the things of this life, even the daily necessities, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Mat. 6:31-34). This is the number one priority. As Nathan Griffith has written previously , we must not be distracted. No matter the cost, no matter what’s going on around us, we must keep our eyes on the prize. When the storms of life are raging all around us, we must keep our eyes on the Messiah...

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.   Who can make us fall short or take that promise away from us? Can Satan destroy us or make us forsake God? Can he defeat us against our will?  John 10:28-29 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. It would appear not to be so. So who then is our greatest enemy, the one who can separate us from God or make us fall short? It's ourselves. Us. We are the ones who make the choices in our lives. There are a lot of things that get chosen for us, but there is one thing that we will always be able to choose, and tha...