Good Morning Friends,
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,' and do not
do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my
words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug
down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent
struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the
one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who
built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck
that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” (Luke 6:46-49)
Storms strike every life. There is no way to
avoid them. A life of faith in Jesus is not a life that does not experience
problems. A life of rejecting Jesus experiences problems, too.
Jesus said, “In this world you will have
trouble.” (John 16:33) Trouble is a part of life. We may not fully understand
why that is true, why that is the nature of the life God planned for every
human being, but we accept the fact that it is the way God designed the world.
The question then, is not how can we avoid all
problems. Rather, the question is how can we prepare our lives to handle the
problems we will face.
Jesus says that the only way to handle problems
well is by building our life on Him. He is the rock that provides a solid
foundation. If our lives are built on Jesus, then when the storms hit our lives
will not be destroyed. The storms still won’t be pleasant, they still will
hurt, but they won’t destroy us.
No other foundation that a person builds a life
on offers that same kind of strength. Only Jesus is the sure foundation.
His, by Grace, Steve
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