Last week at our meeting we considered a very familiar passage. It's in Luke chapter 6, verses 46-49. Jesus tells a story of two men who build houses. One man builds a house by first digging down into the solid rock . This house has a firm foundation. The other man builds his house quickly on the ground without any foundation.
Okay - so you've probably heard this one before, maybe you even know the song from your days in Sunday School. (If you don't and you are very brave, I could sing it to you next week.) What's the point? Well, of course it's a better plan to build a house on a firm foundation. That fact is proven at the end of the story when a storm comes and the house with the firm foundation stands and the house built on the ground with no foundation falls apart.
We all want to be the wise person who builds our house on the firm foundation, right? But, what was Jesus really saying? As he told this story I can imagine him looking at the faces of many people who had come to hear him teach. Jesus had just finished preaching one of the most famous sermons ever preserved, The Beatitudes. People were blown away by his wisdom and the authority that he spoke with. I can imagine that they were hanging on his every word,
And, then Jesus tells the story of these two builders.
What is easy to miss about this story is that these two people start off at the same place. Jesus says that they both heard his words. They both were part of the same congregation. The difference comes with what the two men did with the words they just heard.
And why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and do not do what I say?
"Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words, and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like:
he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
"But the one who has heard, and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house upon the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great."
Ladies, this message hits me every time. What am I doing with Jesus' words? Am I acting on them, am I letting the teaching of Jesus really shape my life? Or, do I hear the teaching and then act the same as I did before? How about you?
In the weeks ahead we'll go through the book mentioned above. It's called, The Rich Single Life. I am confident that this book is based on words of Christ that will provide you with the tools needed for good foundation building. If you would like to purchase a copy you may do so buy typing:
www.SovereignGraceStore.com
in your browser and then follow the directions. The books are only $6 per copy.
I hope you can make it to our meeting, at Cross Creek Church this Saturday at 10:30am.
If you need babysitting please let me know (there will be a boxcar rally going on this Saturday too, so if you are involved in that with your kids, we hope you'll have a great time and we'll see you the week after).
Love,
Shelly
stimbol@comcast.net
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