Your LIfe is Being Built

Tiana Gomez, one of our sweet youngsters in 180, taking time to goof off with Sydney at my son's football game.  Preparing for a weekend of family and birthday celebration and church family stuff.... praying for the fulness of God over our time.  As I am preparing for the weekend, the scripture that I will be speaking on this week is,

 “therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.  But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who build his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell.  And great was its fall.   And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. ”  Matthew 7:24-29

This text is the real deal and is loaded with some powerful truth.  Jesus states that there are two kinds of people:  those that hear his word and those who don't.  You know, the world will tell us there are more voices than this.  Buddah, self, allah, totem pole, inner self, etc... But Jesus claim is that there really is only one voice.  And that is His.  This enfuriates some, and is laughable to others, yet I still have to hold out the quote often used, "Jesus is either lunatic, liar or Lord."  Either way, this scripture points out that there is only One voice.  And there are only two responses to that voice.... heeding or dissing.  The heeding response is the person about listening and doing the will of God in the earth.  It is about building a house on the Rock, JESUS.  That foundation will surely stand through the end of time and eternity.  Then there is the dissing response.  It looks like more than one response.  Some ignore the voice, some curse it, some deny it.  Yet Jesus says, if you diss my voice, you will be dissed.  Sandy foundations make for HARD FALLS.  Thing is, everything is fine until the storm.  One writer infers that the storm is the day of judgment.  My concern is for the people thinking their house is good to go.  Question for the week and as we come into more discussion on Sunday, "Is what you are building made to stand?"....

Peace.