In Matthew 7:24-27, Jesus teaches about the foundation built upon the rock and not the sand. Only a life built on foundations that are firm can withstand the storms. I believe we should listen and do, to strengthen our foundation.
The power in learning is not the words that are said in public or what is mentally heard by reading, but in the listening. We learn, when we take ownership of what we are hearing, when it becomes personal. A relationship with Christ cannot be what others have told you, but what have you experienced for yourself. Jesus said, “Who does the world say that I am? But most important “Who do you say I am?”
We listen and then we do. Knowledge only has value when it is translated into action. William Barclay wrote, “Knowledge must become action; theory must become practice; theology must become life. What good is Christian knowledge if we do not love, forgive, or try to conform to the likeness, in character, of our Lord.
The storms are not eliminated, but in the listening and the doing, we can learn to withstand. We will bend but we will not break. Even as I say these words about bending and not breaking, Lord, I believe, but help me with my unbelief that I could break.
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