I’m sure we’ve all heard, read, or otherwise been made aware of this verse at least half a million times, but something caught me as we were reading through it in class a couple weeks ago. Anytime I’ve heard this exposited, used as an example or even just read it myself I always came away with the thought.. “Yes, build your life on Christ, the rock, the solid foundation and then your house, your life, won’t fall down when things get tough.
“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
” The only problem with this is that it isn’t quite what this verse or section is talking about. Its talking about the words of Christ, and more specifically doing them. This is huge and a difference worth spending some time to realize and ponder. Read it again, thinking about the words, the structure, it really isn’t hard to see and understand at all. Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who, not only built his house (hears the words) but takes careful note to build upon a rock (does the words). Do you see the difference? Its not enough to just talk about, hear about, know about or even talk to Christ, you have to do what He says if your to have any hope of standing. Your entire life and every aspect thereof will be impacted, changed, affected. You belong to God, are you acting like it?
To Stand By Tyler
To stand we have to hear and do. Our understanding of all the world around us, our whole existence, (our hearing, our house) will blow over and be destroyed if we our not pursuing, from the heart, a passion to obey Christ out of a genuine love for Him for all the worth He is. Great will be the destruction of our perception if all we do is hear, and never do. To stand we must do, to do we must believe, to believe we must have grace, and to have grace we must have Christ, and praise God we do. To stand will cost your flesh everything, but to fall will cost your soul so much more. “O God cause us to stand! For how easily we are deceived.”
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.” James 1:22-25
“Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.” 1 Corinthians 10:12
