"I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it because, it was well built..."
The passage continues to talk about a man who did not build his house on a firm foundation. But, that tends to be what most people focus on because they don't want that to represent them. However, as I was reading over this passage a few simple words hit me. The man "dug down deep..." I have so often expect God to be my shelter to hide me from the storms without having to really do anything except call on Him. Jesus never said that was the case. These words prove that. In order to truly build a solid foundation, the man had to go DEEP. If we don't continue to dig deep, we will never make it to the Rock. I used to always wonder about the people in the gray areas, the sometimes do-sometimes don't people. But, now God is showing me that it is either "do or drown." You have to get deep. Barely digging just isn't going to cut it when it comes down to it. Also, rarely doing what God says is not going to work either when the floods come rushing in. Floods cause so much destruction. So, what kind of flood insurance are you building up?
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