Building

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

As I was praising and worshiping God earlier in the evening just now, God spoke to me about this verse. It's not about the usual emphasis on God's word, but He emphasized on the building part. To make it easier, let's look at the whole process as having three ingredients: the builder, the rock and the building material. The builder represents us, the rock represents the Word, and the building material represents our lives.

The thing is that we can have the rock and the builder, but the building material is not built upon the rock. The builder needs to take the constant effort to build the material (ie bricks, straws whatever) on the rock. Likewise, we need to make the constant effort to build our lives upon the Word. In short, we need to be pro-active in doing so. We cannot be passive and just expect the materials to land on the rock and start building itself. Other than responding to the word, what we put into practice has to be on our lives, not on other people's lives.

It starts with us, pro-actively acting upon the word of God and building our lives upon it.

Comments

  1. Amen , I believe this parable is in the book of Matthew. Was just reading about it but you really broke it down into "edible" pieces :P

    May God's abundant grace,blessings and wisdom be poured on you bro :)

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