One of the tower in Highland Tower collapsed in 1993 due to underground water that has sipped into the foundation of the buildings. Due to the cutting of hillslopes for development in the vicinity, rain water has penetrated the cut surfaces and reached the underground soil where the foundation of the building stood. The unseen erosion and softening of the ground eventually weakened the foundation which eventually gave way and the whole building collapsed resulting in the death of many lives and total ruins to the the building.
The Towers have been standing there for many years and to no fault of it's own collapsed due to underground erosion. Similarly our lives may seem well and good, our businesses or marriages may seem well and good. But just as undergound water can wash away the soil on which the foundation lays; subtle "underground" lies can wash away truth, compromise can wash away integrity, selfishness can wash away the commitment to love, disappointments can wash away zeal for righteousness, betrayal can wash away loyalty, hurts can wash away health, success can wash away humility etc.
Your life could have been built on solid ground but please do not take your foundation for granted. Others' sins can affect you just like the greedy and foolish developments around Highland Towers affected its foundations. Your own heart can be deceived, corrupted or polluted from its purity in Christ. The enemy knows that his time is short and he is working very hard to bring Christians down especially Christian leaders. Don't think that a Christian leader who is successful now will always stay that way. We need to always stay humble, open, teachable and most of all "correctable". Our foundations are truly faulty if we have a problem when being corrected. Let our hearts always be humble and tender towards God and towards people.
That's why the word warns us to guard our hearts!
Pro 4:23
(ESV) Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
(GW) Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.
(NKJV) Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.(IBIS) Jagalah hatimu baik-baik, sebab hatimu menentukan jalan hidupmu.
Do not let bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness linger there. Do not let pride and selfishness be there. Do not let any lust of the flesh or lust of the eyes be there. Jesus' counsel is so serious and radical.
He said, (Mat 5:29) If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Today we see big corporations fall due to the erosion of foundations. Such corporations that have given up godly ethics and have embraced the "bottom line value" of monetary profits as their highest goal. They have used unrighteous, corrupt and even wicked ways (that amounts to commiting criminal offenses when caught) to make money.
Dearly beloved, let's seek to walk the way our Lord calls us to walk. It is a way that will lead to life though few may walk in it.
(Mat 7:13) "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
(Mat 7:14) For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
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