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1. Every wise man should sometimes look at his "foundations," and especially at the "foundation" on which he is building his eternity.

2. Perhaps the chief danger is of treating as "foundations" what are part of the superstructure. And therefore you should take it as a first principle that the "foundation" is nothing which you have laid, or can lay. Your faith, love, change of character, good works, have nothing in the world to do with the "foundation." They may be evidences that there is a foundation, and may be a test of how firmly we are attached to it, but they are not the foundation itself.

3. What, then, may I ask, is at this moment the "foundation" of your hope, of your eternal life? You perhaps say, "The love of God." But that is not all you want. Can you find your foundation in the justice, in the truth of God? Has net God said, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die!" And love can never cancel truth.

4. Is there, then, a "foundation" deeper and more sound than the love of God? Is there a "foundation" which shall reconcile and combine all the attributes of God? Yes. His love makes Him, as a Father, longing to forgive all His children, and His justice makes it to be unjust to punish what He has already punished in the Substitute. There, then, is safety.

5. But what has led me to that position of safety? Simply the act of believing, and as the Holy Spirit puts it into your heart to believe, we come to our conclusion that our "foundation" lies in the Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. They are all united to us in Christ.

6. Do any object, "It is too easy?" The grandest things of the universe are always the simplest.

(J. Vaughan, M. A.)

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KJV: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

WEB: For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.