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We are all familiar
with the children’s
story of the Three
Little
Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf. One little piggy built his house of straw, one
built his house with
twigs, and one built
his house with
bricks. First, the
wolf came to the first house, he huffed and he puffed and he blew the
house down. Then he
went to the second
house and the same
thing happened. The
houses built with
the straw and twigs
did not stand up
under his attack.
They came crashing
down. However, the
three little pigs
used bricks to build
the third house, and
when the wolf tried
to blow
it down it did not collapse.
In building a home,
you start with the
foundation. The
building is only as
strong as the base
on which it is
built. It is
imperative that when
we
build our house,
that we build it
upon the Rock, which
is Jesus Christ.
In Luke chapter 6,
Jesus is talking to
His disciples. He
was telling them
how they should
live. He talked
about the
beatitudes, fruit,
giving, judging,
love, and being wise
and foolish in
building their
houses. He was
showing them the
difference between a
doer of the Word and
one that only
hears what He says.
Luke 6:46-49. “And
why call ye me,
Lord, Lord, and do
not the things which
I say? Whosoever
cometh to me, and
heareth my sayings,
and
doeth them, I will
shew you to whom he
is like: He is like
a man which
built an house, and
digged deep, and
laid the foundation
on a rock: and
when the flood
arose, the stream
beat vehemently upon
that house, and
could not shake it:
for it was founded
upon a rock.But he
that heareth,
and doeth not, is
like a man that
without a foundation
built an house
upon the earth;
against which the
stream did beat
vehemently, and
immediately it fell;
and the ruin of that
house was great.”
In Matthew 7, Jesus
is talking to them
about how to enter
into
His Kingdom. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and
broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many (mostly)there be
which go in thereat:
Because strait is
the gate, and narrow
(from
obstacles standing
close about) is the
way, which leadeth
unto life,
and few there be
that find it.”
He goes on to tell
them in verses 21-23
that not everyone
that calls Him
‘Lord’ will enter
into the kingdom of
Heaven, only those
that do the
will of the Father. They will protest, saying ‘but Lord, did we not
prophesy in They Name? Did we not cast out devils? Did we not
do many wonderful
works in They Name?’
Jesus will say unto
them, “I never knew
you, depart (go
away) from
me, you that work (commit, minister about, be engaged in) iniquity
(wickedness,
unrighteousness).”
He repeats the
warning about
building our houses
upon the Rock.
Romans 6
says: "Let not sin
therefore reign in
your mortal body,
that ye should obey
it in the lusts
thereof. Neither
yield ye your
members as
instruments of
unrighteousness unto
sin: but yield
yourselves unto God,
as those that are
alive from the dead,
and your members as
instruments of
righteousness unto
God. For sin shall
not have dominion
over you: for ye are
not under the law,
but
under grace. What
then? shall we sin,
because we are not
under the
law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom
ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom
ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience
unto righteousness?"
Our bodies are the
temple of the Holy
Spirit. God help us
to build our ‘house’
upon a rock. So that
when the big bad
wolf comes huffing
and puffing, and the
rains come and the
winds beat against
our house,
it will stand firm, having a solid foundation.
Shirley
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