The Wise and the Foolish Builders (Matt 7:24-27)
Jesus told a wonderful story: Whoever hears what I say to do and does it, he is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rains came down and the floods came up, the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, for it was built on the rock. But whoever hears what I say to do and does NOT do it, he is like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rains came down and the floods came up, the winds blew and beat on that house, it fell down with a mighty crash.
You have played in the sand before: it can be scooped up and shaped into all kinds of shapes - but when waves come in and wash over the shore, they flatten out whatever you built. Sand is always changing with the movement of waves, rain and wind. People's ideas are like that too - one day lots of people think one thing, and the next day they think something completely different. They change. If you try to do things the way other people say you should, they may tell you something completely different tomorrow.
But Jesus is like the rock - rock is strong and hard, and it doesn't change. It is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. You can build on the rock and know that it will be steady. When Jesus says something, He means it - He won't change His mind and tell us something else tomorrow. He wants us to hear Him and then do what we heard Him say. He knows that we can't do the things He wants us to do on our own, so He tells us to stay close to Him and ask Him to help us do what is right.
(the link to the full post is: http://elizabethtreger.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-countdown-dec-13.html)
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