Verse from Matthew

““所以，凡听见我这些话又遵行的，就像聪明的人，把自己的房子盖在盘石上。”

‭‭马太福音‬ ‭7:24‬ ‭

““Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7:24‬ ‭

Jesus used the image of building a home atop a faulty foundation to explain the far riskier danger of building our lives on unsteady ground. He explained how some of us construct our life on sturdy rock, ensuring that we hold solid when we face fierce storms. 

Others of us, however, erect our lives on sand; and when the tempests rage, our lives tumble “with a great crash” (Matthew 7:27). The one distinction between building on an unshakable foundation and a crumbling one is whether or not we put Christ’s words “into practice” (v. 26). The question isn’t whether or not we hear His words, but whether we practice them as He enables us.

There’s much wisdom offered to us in this world—plus lots of advice and help—and much of it is good and beneficial. If we base our life on any foundation other than humble obedience to God’s truth, however, we invite trouble. In His strength, doing what God says is the only way to have a house, a life, built on rock.