In today's opening scripture, The Lord Jesus liked your life's journey to the building of a house. While the superstructure may be the most attractive and easily noticed, the foundation determines the building's stability and strength. In life, everyone is building but it matters on what foundation. There are only two foundation types, the rock and sand. According to Jesus' words, building on the rock means acting on God's word. This means becoming a word practitioner. This is when the word of God gives you a mentality and guides your actions. This happens as you give quality attention to the word of God uncompromisingly through meditation. In meditation your relationship with the word deepens and the word becomes a force guiding your actions. You don't just hear the word passively. James 1:22 (NLT) admonishes, "But don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves". This is about submitting to the Lordship of God's Word. You accept what the word of God says as truth and final authority in your life. This is the substance of building your life on the rock. It's about the quality and relational interaction you have with God's word.

Just as the Lord said in this world we shall have troubles (John 16:33), times of challenges show up on our way and it is the foundation of the word God that gives us stability. It doesn't matter the wind, rains and floods of challenges that may face you, you will stand strong. Proverbs 24:10 says, "If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small". It is that word in you, which you have submitted to, that becomes your foundational strength in the day of adversity. No amount of trouble quenches your love for the Lord.

Nothing drowns your faith and commitment to the Lord when you are built on the foundation of the word of God. Your prosperity and progress are guaranteed by that word-foundation irrespective of the challenges around you, in your country or community. Take the cultivation of a quality relationship with God's word as priority in your life. Compromise in this is costly. Think of the waste when a seeming magnificent superstructure collapses due to a faulty foundation. Don't let that happen to your life. Always submit to the Word of God. This is the secret of maintaining your relevance as the light of the world through all times.