Have you ever walked around a building site? Before the guys get busy with the bricks and mortar something really important has to happen, a bloke in a JCB has to get digging. He’s got the most important job – the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right then the house is doomed. Oh, it might stand for a few years but sooner or later the cracks will start appearing – then it’s game over. 

Your life needs solid foundations too, and God’s way of laying them is by his word, it’s solid as cement. Here’s some of the things he says to you: 

1) ‘I Love you’ God’s love is not some wishy washy – airy fairy emotions. It’s the total devotion in which his perfect justice and mercy meet. Sounds like a pretty secure position to be in, don’t you think? 

2) ‘You’re very important to me’ If you’ve grown up feeling ignored or unwanted, you need to hear this. You’re so important to God that, ‘…he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son…’ (Ephesians 1:7 NLT). How’s that for value? God is interested in every part of your life and that’ll never change! 

3) ‘I have a destiny for you’ 

Without a supportive environment to grow up in, you can end up with absolutely no idea why on earth you are alive, or completely the wrong idea. God has got big plans for you – and to help you He’s ‘given…you…special abilities’ (1Peter 4:10 TLB). And get this: He’s ‘raised us up with Christ’ (Ephesians 2:6 NIV). So hold your head up high and don’t let anybody tell you your life doesn’t matter. It does, because God says so!

"Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer....  Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD. You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound. I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety."

(Many of the reflections on each page are used with the kind permission of United Christian Broadcastors (UCB) from their FREE daily devotional - The Word for Today. They allow the publication of 52 of their passages per year and I find their messages apt and though-provoking for the times we live in.)

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