Solid Foundation

These were the verses that stood out to me today:
Matthew 7:24-28
24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29 for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law.

This is a great reminder that if we follow God's direction, we can always be sure that we will be standing on a solid foundation. That doesn't mean that everything will be easy or that we will have no troubles in life, but when "the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against" us, we won't collapse, because we'll be in the arms of the Savior. This is sometimes hard for me to do. When the world is telling me one thing and the Lord is telling me another, sometimes it seems safer or easier to follow what the world is saying, but really we are building our house on a weak foundation and we will "collapse with a mighty crash".

I also included verses 28 and 29 because I find them interesting. We were discussing this some in an earlier post, but this again shows the difference between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of the religious leaders.