Build on solid ground

Steve Lyston, Contributor

The purpose of the building code is to regulate building construction in order to protect health, safety and welfare.

It controls all aspects of building - materials, exit strategy, fire safety and structural integrity. With this in mind, biblical principles are the perfect code to build your organisation. It gives criteria, solutions, protection and safety. It warns you of consequences.

The next two and a half years are going to be critical for all nations and organisations. Your building codes will be tested. If you truly understand the number fifty that the nation is celebrating, there is connection to land, inheritance, freedom, debt write-offs, amnesty and pardon of prisoners.

So the nation should be cutting back on some of the spending for the celebrations, and channel it to help liberate the people and to deal with the great challenges ahead.

The number one criterion for any nation is to centre its activities around the building of its people. It's going to be very costly to all the builders who build without God. Build with those who are gifted and talented in particular areas, not politically. We have to build with the right materials - either rock or sand.

Fallouts

Rock represents trust, hope, the Word of God, truth, righteousness, faith and revelation. Sand represents carnality, corruption and selfishness. (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:24-29, Luke 6:46-49).

Every building will be tested - rain, flood and wind. These are the three key elements that will, literally and figuratively, come against a building, a nation or an economy.

Recently, the global economy was blamed for the housing and vehicle industry fallouts. If those two industries were so significantly affected by the economic wind, on what were they built?

Very shortly, a number of 'houses' will be tested including media houses, churches and civic organisations.

Let us now take a test to determine the building code for your organisation.

What would happen if your organisation's main clientele or customers pull out?

What would happen if you have a loan to repay and you lose all your contracts?

What would happen if you have a mortgage and/or car loan/payment and you lose your job tomorrow?

What would happen if the top ten tithers in your church walk away and there is a church loan or mortgage to repay?

What would happen if your most trusted employee becomes your competitor?

What would happen if your operational costs are exceeded and your sales fall significantly?

What would happen if you are depending on a loan to take you out of financial debt only to realise that it takes you into deeper debt?

What would you do if the bank in which you have put all your savings collapses tomorrow and you lose all your savings?

While you ensure that your building has an entrance and an exit, ensure that there is also an emergency exit and a safe zone in the building!

While there are certain things we have little or no control over, individuals, organisations and nations that build with the right building code will not suffer much loss during the wind, fire or rain that is inevitable during the life of any person, organisation or nation.

A builder must be wise. Their foundation must be very deeply rooted in God. Bailouts and cash for jewellery cannot be your contingency plan. There is nothing wrong with borrowing loans, but that must go to improving infrastructure and increasing manufacturing space, not to service debts. Furthermore, the fine print must be clearly understood, so that there are no negative repercussions on future generations.

It is time to check our building codes to ensure prosperity, peace, growth, unity, and sustainable development, so that each person will have a better quality of life.

Steve Lyston is a biblical economics consultant and author of several books, including 'End Time Finance' and 'The New Millionaire'.