There are certain things that are just foundational to doing the work of God in this world. Christ spoke of these things in the Sermon on the Mount and summed up His teaching by saying that these truths are foundational. David cited the importance of foundations in Psalm eleven:
Psalm 11:3 (KJV)
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Two of the characteristics cited by Christ in the Beatitudes are humility and meekness. Where these foundational characteristics are absent the builders will often find their efforts being continually frustrated. It could be compared to attempting to set up a tent in a tornado. This is so well seen in the experience of King Saul, who started so well as a humble servant of God but ultimately ruined himself and terribly disrupted the kingdom because of envy and jealousy.
Unfortunately this is a common experience in our churches these days; people of great gifts and talents who are self-destroyed by their own out-of-control attitudes and the churches themselves injured by their behavior. We are left with the lament of King David, “what can the righteous do?” I suppose the right answer to the righteous comes from the apostle Paul:
Galatians 6:9 (KJV)
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Let us demand good foundations and work in faith as we serve God in these days.
