What is your Foundation?

If you have ever seen Despicable Me, in the very first scene you see a family at the pyramids. Sure enough, an overly ambitious little boy gets too close to the pyramid and falls off a platform into the pyramid. It turns out, said pyramid is phony, it is a blown-up, cheap imitation because the actual pyramids had been stolen. Instead of letting the truth be shown, they tried to fool everyone to make it appear as if everything is fine. How many times are we more concerned with everyone believing that everything is just fine? That answer is probably more than we would like to admit. Probably even more than you will admit to yourself.

We are oftentimes more concerned with our perception of everyone else than our own reality. This usually happens because the priorities of our lives have gotten out of order. Depending on the time of year or season we find ourselves in, our priorities can vary drastically.

As unpopular as culture may tell you this is, God has to be our number one priority in all aspects of our lives, including our marriages. God is the foundation of our lives and the foundation of our marriages. He is the solid rock that will never be overcome by the storms we find ourselves in from time to time. Jesus puts this beautifully in Matthew 7:24-27 - 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been found on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Have you heard there are three people in a marriage? The husband, the wife, and God. Our marriage is compared to a tripod. It takes all three legs of the tripod to remain standing. While there is truth in that, it takes the husband and the wife relying on God, and if either the husband or wife aren’t on the same page the marriage will fall, just like a tripod. But we believe there are actually four people in a marriage, the husband, the wife, God, and the enemy. If we are not careful and we do not prioritize God and are not talking to Him constantly, it is so easy for the enemy to sneak into our marriage. The enemy is able to get in so quickly and go unnoticed until we wake up one day and there has been a wedge driven so deeply in our marriage, we wonder, “How did we get here?”

It’s simple but takes discipline and dependence, God is our top priority. When we live out our marriages His way, they will not fail. When we seek God first, He will take care of everything else. It is unimaginable the places the Lord can take you.