46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”
The story of The Three Little Pigs pales in comparison to the picture Jesus paints here: Life is full of storms; the judgment of God is the biggest one there is. Someday our lives will give an account to Him. The foundation of our lives is to be our faith in Christ - trusting Him and living the way He instructs us. When we trust and obey, our lives will be able to withstand not only the trials of this life, but the testing that comes afterward. Many claim to be followers of Christ, to believe in Him, but doing is a different story. Their end will be a sad story of not "living happily ever after" in someone else's safe, secure home, but alone, without fellowship with Christ and His fellow followers. This makes all the more important the challenges we have seen the last couple of days, of self-examination and focusing on forgiveness.
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