Not once, but many times, most of us have stood in awe as we looked at some great engineering feat, a bridge, a dam, or a many-storied building. The necessity of a firm foundation has been borne in upon us. A solid foundation for our lives in Christian Science is just as essential. We must base our thinking on the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter. We must clearly realize that because Truth is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, discord has no power or presence and is in fact unreal, nonexistent.
Jesus once used the parable of two home builders—one who built on a firm rock and the other on unstable sand. The house built on rock withstood a severe storm of wind and flood, while the other house with the shaky sand foundation failed to withstand the stresses of the storm and was destroyed—"and great was the fall of it" (Matt. 7:27).
Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 269): "The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none. All other systems—systems based wholly or partly on knowledge gained through the material senses—are reeds shaken by the wind, not houses built on the rock."
