The day began with egg sandwiches and it wasn’t long afterwards that we were on our way to Mebrillal. Yesterday was spent digging trenches for the foundation of the school and we had assumed that today we would begin pouring the concrete and we would see the building start to take shape. We quickly found out that instead, we needed to dig deeper…much deeper…three times as deep!
At first this thought was dis-heartening. It felt like all the work we’d done the day before was almost for nothing. But what God showed us is that in order for this building to last for multiple generations, the foundation needed to be strong, and the holes needed to be deep in order to build the foundation upon a rock.
Matthew 7:24-25 says, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on a rock. 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 founded on the rock.”
Our lives need to be built upon that same rock. When digging the holes for the foundation of the school, the dirt on the lot was extremely soft. And we needed to dig down deep to find the solid ground, in some cases over 6 feet!
In Guatemala we have seen how difficult life can be and what God has shown us is how important His gospel is for us to survive and to have hope. If we hadn’t dug down deep, past all the layers of soft dirt to find the hard ground, our houses would tumble over at the slightest breeze or rain. This is why it is important that our lives be built upon the rock and not shifting sand.
Again we’ve come to Guatemala to serve and be a blessing and instead we are the ones being served and blessed! To God be the glory!
Scott
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