What About Your Home?

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Ross Triplett
03/17/19 - Articles

“If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?” (Psalms 11:3). Foundations consist of those things that give support. Houses are placed upon foundations to give them strength and stability. Relationships must have a good foundation in order to meet hard times. It matters not what the topic is: if the matter under discussion is worthy, it must be built upon something solid for it to last. When thinking about our society, our homes, our government, what can the righteous do if the foundations are destroyed? When you move into a new home, you assume the foundation is secure. You begin with a preconceived idea that the foundation that supports the house will always remain the same, and take little thought to the fact that shifts in the earth can change the stability of the foundation. What would you do, if the foundations be destroyed? Now, let’s apply that question to the home.

When God created man, He said, “It is not good that the man should be alone…Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:18, 22, 24). Marriage was God’s answer to the question of man’s loneliness.

The perfection God saw with the husband/wife relationship was tainted by the work of Satan. When Eve yielded to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, the devastation of sin began to affect every relationship of man. Every sin of man is a result of selfishness: Eve “saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise” (Genesis 3:6). It was because of what Eve wanted that ultimately resulted in all the heartache, death, and spiritual separation that exist in the world today, and so affirmed the apostle John, saying, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (1 John 2:16).

Remember the words of the Lord, who said, “Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:31-33). ret