Imagine a house built on sand. It's beautiful design, stunning architecture. But one storm, one flood, and it's gone.
Now imagine another house. Maybe it's not as flashy, but it's rooted on rock. The storm hits, the flood comes, and it stands.
Which house is your life?
Too many of us are building lives, careers, even faith, on unstable ground.
But the Bible gives us a blueprint for building something eternal.
Rooted, unshakable, and firm in Jesus Christ.
Today, we're diving deep into what it really means to be rooted in Christ. Building a firm foundation. The storm will come.
Let's begin in Matthew 7, verse 24-27, where Jesus tells the parable of the wise and foolish builders.
Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
But everyone who hears these words and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Notice the storm comes to both houses.
Christianity never promises a storm-free life.
But it does promise a storm-proof foundation, if it's rooted in Christ.
A young man whose life looked perfect on the outside, career, relationship, money, but when a personal crisis hit, he crumbled.
Because faith wasn't the foundation.
Let's go to Colossians 2, verse 6 and 7.
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, rooted and built up in Him.
Paul uses the image of roots, not potted plants that can be moved around depending on mood or culture. Think about a tree. Roots take time. They go deep before the tree goes high. You don't see them.
But they anchor everything. The deeper the roots, the greater the fruit.
Remember Joseph in Genesis. He was betrayed by family, falsely accused, imprisoned, but he didn't uproot. He stayed grounded in God's promises, and in time, bore fruit in the palace of Pharaoh. His life proves this truth. When you're rooted in God, you can thrive in any soil.
Being rooted in Christ doesn't mean adding Jesus to your plans. It means surrendering your plans to His Lordship.
The first book of Corinthians 3, verse 11 says,
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
If your foundation is identity, money, talent, or relationships, culture shifts.
But Jesus is the same yesterday, today,
In John 6, when the crowds left Jesus after a hard teaching, He asked His disciples,
Do you want to leave too?
Peter said,
Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
That's the language of someone rooted.
Peter wasn't going anywhere.
So how do we get rooted?
Read and obey His Word.
Not just hear it.
Build your foundation daily.
10 minutes in the Bible can realign your heart.Prayer and presence.
Not ritual, but relationship.
Roots grow in secret.Community iron sharpens iron.
You weren't designed to root alone.Suffering and endurance.
Trials are not punishment.
They're the soil where faith gets deeper.
Like Job, who said,Though he slay me, yet will I trust him.
Jesus is not a life hack. He's life itself. And to build anything eternal, you must be anchored in Him.
You can start today. Wherever your life feels unstable, invite Jesus to be the foundation. The rock underneath it all.
Let Psalm 1 verse 3 be your reality.
They are like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season.
And whatever they do, prospers.
Pray with me.
Lord Jesus,
I don't want to build my life on temporary things.
Root me in your word.
Root me in your love.
Make me unshakable in you.
If this spoke to you, and share with someone who needs to stop building on sand. Let's raise a generation rooted in Christ.