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August 20, 2022 8:00 pm
To test the stability of two houses, engineers simulated a category three hurricane by using powerful fans that produced winds gusts of 100 mph for ten minutes. The first house was built according to a non-hurricane building code and the other was put together with a reinforced roof and floors. The first house shook and eventually collapsed, but the second house survived with only a few cosmetic damages. One of the engineers summarized the study by asking, "Which house would you rather be living in?"
Concluding His teaching on values of kingdom living, Jesus said, “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). The fierce winds blew, but the house survived. In contrast, the person who hears, and doesn’t obey, “is like a foolish man who built his house on sand” (v. 26). The fierce winds blew, and the house collapsed under the intensity of the storm. Jesus presented his audience with two options: build your lives on the solid foundation of obedience to Him or on the unstable sand of your own ways.
We too have to make a choice. Will we build our lives on Jesus and obedience to His words or disobedience to His instruction? By the Holy Spirit’s help, we can choose to build our lives on Christ.
Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily reading today. Title to houses was written by Marvin Williams to test the stability of two houses engineers simulated a category three hurricane by using powerful fans that produced when cost of 100 mph for 10 minutes. The first house was built according to a non-hurricane building code and the other was put together with a reinforced roof and floors. The first house shook and eventually collapsed. But the second house survived with only a few cosmetic damages.
One of the engineers summarize the study by asking which house would you rather be living in concluding his teaching on values of kingdom living in Matthew chapter 7 Jesus said, 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 fierce winds blew, but the house survived. In contrast, the person who hears and yet doesn't obey is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
The fierce winds blew and the house collapsed under the intensity of the storm. Jesus presented his audience with two options. Build your lives on the solid foundation of obedience to him or on the unstable sand of your own ways we to have to make a choice. Will we build our lives on Jesus and obedience to his words or disobedience to his instruction by the Holy Spirit's help, we can choose to build our lives on Christ today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is taken from Matthew chapter 7 verses 24 through 27 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, but everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash but spray Jesus, would you help us to build our lives on you so that when the storms of life arise in the winds blow will remain faithful firm and unafraid safe in your care. Thank you, Lord. It's in Jesus name that we pray and trust a man. Thanks for listening today. My name is Wes Ward and today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
