In today's Gospel, Matthew 7: 21-19, Jesus tells us that if we truly listen to the Scriptures read or preached to us we are then putting into practice the Words of Jesus. In living according to Jesus' preaching by His words and His actions we are building our "houses" on solid rock. We will go through hard times but our faith in the Lord Jesus will not be destroyed nor will we stop doing what is right for our families, communities, or world. "Rain" will fall. "Floods" will come. "Winds" will beat against the house but it will "not collapse [because] it had been set solidly on rock."
I have been told about a little 3 or 4-year-old child battling a brain tumor. When the road gets rough, she sings "Awesome God" or "Jesus loves me; this I know 'cause the Bible tells me so"! I also see in my mind's eye a little girl featured on the news this past year. She was in a refugee camp, having escaped her country because of a raging, violent war. She was thanking God for the safety of the camp! Both these children are being taught to build their "houses" on rock! The Lord is their Rock of Safety, as He is ours.
Do we live as these little children do?
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