Foundations

At the edge of the Sea of Galilee, there are sandy flats, where some foolish builders would put up a house because the foundation came made to order - it was flat and level and easy to build upon.  It was, however, made to order by the rainwater that would rage down the ravines into the sea.  A newly built house on those sands was just one more thing to flatten.

Wise builders passed up the made to order sandy flats and made their way to the higher ground, which was princibly rock.  It was hard to chisel out a flat foundation and difficult to attach the house to the foundation, but once accomplished, the spring rains and stormy winds had little effect on the house firmly built upon the rock foundation.

Jesus pointed out the contrast in the two builders, making a kingdom connection in Matthew 7:[24] “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. [25] The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. [26] But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. [27] The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Nothing has changed in the two thousand years since Christ spoke those words in the Sermon on the Mount.  A solid foundation is still needed to support a lasting structure.  And a solid foundation is not produced by minimal effort.  If we take little to no time in study of God's Word, we will have little to no usable foundation for life and eternity.  If we do little to no digging there will be little to no depth to our foundation of biblical knowledge and understanding of kingdom matters.  The point of concern being that "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Rom 10:17) and, therefore, if we have a weak foundation in the Word, we will have a weak foundation for our faith.

This is Jesus' point.  Unless we dig into his Word and work it into our lives, our foundation for faith will not be strong enough to stand up to the storms of life.  We, therefore, need to be people of the Book, who take time daily to commune with our God as we feast on His Word.  Jus' Say'n.