Jesus wraps up his longest recorded sermon like this, "These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock. But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don't work them into your life, you are like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards."
During the mission trip meeting after church on Sunday, I got a call from Heidi telling me to come home. Our basement (the one I had been standing in that morning rehearsing my sermon) had an inch of water in it. We are going to be shoring up our drainage system, but until then it's vaccuuming up buckets and buckets of water. Thank God for the firm foundation or it would all be swept away.
Incidentally, our church is built on a rock.
I almost laughed (or cried...it's a fine line) when I hit verse 3 today, "You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm."
The storms will come. Faith helps us stand firm.
We hit our $5,000 goal, so I just ordered the product for the meals we'll be packaging on Friday and Saturday. 28 of us are fasting. We'd like to have 40 on board by the weekend.
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