“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” – Matthew 7:24-25
Storms and floods, both literal and figurative, will come in your life. We’ll all experience seasons of pain, loss, stress, sorrow, suffering, deprivation, and difficulty. For some these may be relatively brief. For others they may be extraordinarily intense and last for years. The question for each of us is upon what will we build our lives?
We all build our lives on something – it could be money, power, pleasure, status, comfort, safety, security, talent, hard-work, discipline, career, family, or faith. Will the foundation of our lives withstand the disasters that inevitably come? When we listen AND obey the teachings of Christ, we build our lives upon the rock that cannot be shaken. When we truly follow Christ, the storms will still come, but we’ll have all we need to endure.
When we build upon faith and obedience to our suffering Savior, we build on the infinite strength and ongoing presence of a Savior who withstood every temptation, suffered unimaginably, yet triumphed over all the forces of evil and death. In hearing and doing the word of Christ we build our lives on the wisdom and promise that Jesus Christ is with us all the days until He returns or we pass away into His visible presence. Upon what is your life built?