I’ve finally stopped long enough to process more or training camp and try to put into words another area in which God worked on while at Training Camp.
“Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation.” Isaiah 28:16
While this Cornerstone has been in my life for almost nearly 17 years now, I have built upon it. I have laid a foundation around this Cornerstone of things in my life, of things from my childhood, and of many other things. I allowed this foundation that I had built define me. God very abruptly made this known to me at training camp. Unlike the walls that were torn down, but identified some months earlier, this foundation was pointed out to me very suddenly. Needless to say, this was not a fun day. God took this truth and wrecked my life, brought me to a place of brokenness. He tore the foundation out from under me because it was the not a foundation that He had built. It was not how He wanted to define me, so He removed it. He then began to build a foundation that was completely of Him. He is still working on building this foundation. He constantly reminds me that I am not defined by my past, but I am defined by Him. He has called me His daughter. Christ is who defines me. I am nothing with Christ in me. While I have known this fact for the majority of my life, I have not always lived it out and allowed God to be the foundation in my life. So for the next undetermined amount of time, God is constantly building and restoring the foundation to what He intended it to be when He laid the Cornerstone of Christ in my life all those years ago.
My question for you is: have you laid a foundation other than what God had planned for you? Have you allowed your past to define you and be what others see, or are you allowing God to define you and build the foundation? This is not an easy process to go through, but it is worth it. God is continually shaping me and molding me into His image.
Another blog on Training Camps is in the works and will be posted some time later this week.
