On Rock

“Anyone who hears my words and puts them into practice is like the wise man who built his house on rock.” Matthew 7:24

It is certainly common sense to build our house on rock and not on sand. We all know what happens when we build our sand castles too close to the water. Little by little, our castle gets eaten up until there is nothing left. A young man told me about his family home in Baguio which was built on a cliff. When a strong earthquake hit Baguio, part of his home fell into the crevice on the mountain side. 

What about our life? We may think we are building our life solidly on rock, but if a catastrophe happens, our faith may suddenly not hold up. Our heart may develop fissures where doubts about God and His goodness fall. Many people today are enamoured by fool’s gold. They are so sure about how right their ideas and positions are, that they boldly talk and talk in public exposing what flimsy ground they stand on. 

The only sure way to be a “wise man” is to read God’s Word, embed it in our heart, and act on it. That way we will be building our life on eternal values and a foundation that cannot be shaken.