Take Time to Build Rightly

One day, two men struck up a conversation while standing in line to get building permits. As they talked, they discovered they were going to be neighbors. They began their building projects approximately the same time. One man immediately began laying his foundation. The other man took his shovel and began digging. Sometime later, the first man began erecting the frame of his house. The other man just kept digging. The first man put up his walls and his roof. The other man kept digging. One day, the wife of the man with the shovel made her daily trip to bring him lunch. But she informed him that it would be her last. “This is embarrassing,” she complained.” That family across the street is having a house warming party tonight. And you’re still in this hole digging.” As she was leaving, her husband hit something hard. “Baby, wait!” he said. “I think I found what I was looking for!” Having established a firm foundation, he finally built his house. On his first night in his new home, a terrible storm arose. The rains fell. The floods rose. The winds blew. But he slept peacefully through it all, until his wife woke him up. “Honey, look!” she said. “That house across the street is toppling over. But he never got out of bed. He was too tired. He just slept right through the storm.

Luke 6:47-49  “Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:   he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.   But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Are you listening, understanding and following the Master’s voice? Pastor Larry