Building Your Life.

Jesus said, "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.The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. "
 Matthew 7:24,25

The rock represents Jesus and the house represents your life.

"For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ." 1 Corinthians 10:4

This is an article by Charles Spurgeon on this subject:

Hearing is not enough; we must do these sayings. The doing hearer has built his house with a stable foundation; the wisest and safest., but also the most expensive and toilsome thing to do. 

Trials come to him. His sincerity and truthfulness do not prevent his being tested. From above and from beneath, and from all sides the trials come: rain, floods and wind. All these beat upon the house. The tests become so severe that nothing can save the building unless it be the strength of its foundation. Because the chief support is so immovable the entire structure survives. "It fell not."

The house may have suffered damage here and there, and it may have looked very weather-beaten; but "it fell not." Let the Rock of Ages be praised if, after terrible tribulation, it can be said of our faith, "It fell not; for it was founded upon a rock."

Jesus said, "And everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn't put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the flood came and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of it." Matthew 7:26,27

Spurgeon:

 He built his house, he was practical and persevering and did not begin and leave off before completion. Yet though he was industrious, he was foolish. No doubt he built quickly, for his foundation cost him no severe labor; his excavations were soon made, for there was no rock to remove: he built his house upon the sand. But trials come even to insincere professors of Christianity. Are we not all born to trouble? The same kind of afflictions come to the foolish as come to the wise, and they operate in precisely the same way; but the result is very different. "It fell." Its chief weakness was underground, in the secret place of the foundation: the man "built his house upon the sand." His fundamentals were wrong.

The crash was terrible; the sound was heard afar: "great was the fall of it." 

Build Your Life on the Rock.

These are the last words Jesus spoke in the Sermon on the Mount.

"Everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them may be compared to a wise man who built his house on solid rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house, and yet it did not fall for it was founded on the rock."

"Everyone who hears these words of mind and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it."

"When the crowds heard it, they were amazed at his teaching because he taught with great authority, unlike their teachers of the law." Matthew 7:24-29

Where I grew up in California, there used to be torrential rains that would come maybe once or twice a year. The cities built cement culverts to catch the rivers of waters that would flood the towns. We once lived in a house by a small stream. The year after we moved out the rains came, the stream swelled into a river and the house was gone. This also happened in the area where Jesus lived so the people there could relate to his story of the two houses.

Jesus is the rock on which to build the foundation of our life. If we do this we will be safe from any storm that hits us. The storms of life can be hard to bear: the death of a loved one, divorce, abuse from someone we love, friends who betray us, children who turn to drugs...so many things can happen to us in this life, but with Jesus as our foundation we can weather the storm. He will be our strength and guide.

To rely on people or this world is trusting in shifting sand. It cannot hold us up, it moves beneath our feet, it slides between our fingers. Build your life on Jesus. He will never let you down.