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."