Jesus Christ is our rock, our sure foundation. If we build on Him, no matter what storms the adversary sends our way, we cannot fall.
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"When a person comes to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and hears Their words and lives by them, he is building his house upon the rock. And regardless of Satan’s efforts to destroy it, this type of house won’t fall. Why? Because it is built upon “the Rock.” We build our house upon our Savior and Redeemer, who is “[our] rock, and [our] fortress”; “[our] everlasting God, [our] rock and [our] salvation”; “the rock [from] whence ye are hewn”; “a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation”; “that spiritual Rock”; “the Rock of Heaven”; “the stone of Israel.” Our Savior has always been and, as we follow Him, can always be our Rock...
How do we come to Him? We begin with faith in Christ, and central to true faith is action. When we have faith in Jesus Christ, we want to act according to that faith. The Book of Mormon prophet Moroni called this having “real intent.”18 For example, if we have faith in Christ, we come to church each Sunday. If we have faith in the Savior, we pay our tithes and offerings. If we have true faith in our Redeemer, we do something about it, because we have real intent. And every time we act according to our faith in Him, we follow Him by hearing and “doing” His words. As we act with faith in Him, the Lord confirms our faith by blessing us with peace, answers to prayer, direction, comfort, and joy. And thus our foundation becomes stronger, wider, and deeper.
As we act on His words, we are doing something called repenting. In the New Testament, repentance comes from the word metanoeó, from the words metá and noeó, meaning “to change one’s mind or purpose.” Isn’t that interesting?
Every time we turn more to Christ, we are repenting-we are following Him. When we sincerely pray to the Father, in a very real sense we are repenting. When we read the scriptures and ponder them, we are repenting. As we make changes because of what we are learning about Christ and His gospel, we are repenting. When we do things that make us better, kinder, gentler, more sensitive, more spiritual, more virtuous, and truer, we are repenting. Whenever we choose the better path, we are repenting. Though we all repent of things that are sinful in our lives, most of our repenting comes from hearing His words and doing them-from turning to Him. This builds our foundation, and we want that foundation to be as big and as wide and as deep and as sturdy as possible." - Weatherford T. Clayton
Elder Weatherford T. Clayton was a General Authority Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was delivered on 14 March 2017.
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