Beyond the rocks...

Matthew 7:24-27
We learn about two different men. One decides that he is going to build his house on a rock, however one decides that he is going to build his upon the sand. It is evident that a rock is more secure than sand, but I know on a regular basis I am building my house upon the sand.

Earlier this week, God reminded of the vintage point you have with a rock. When I think of the wise man building his house upon the sand, the sand is level. The only perspective you get is of the seas and anything else that is already on you level. However, when you build you house upon the rock you get a whole different perspective. It causes you to see higher! Understanding that, I was like, "Oh yes Lord! It makes sense! Thank you for that truth!" I wrote it up on my notice board to remind me everyday that I need to be standing on the rock...

Until the waves came. Little did I understand that the waves don't have to come in the form of a huge disaster to knock my security. The waves can come in currents of thoughts that attempt to sweep away any survivors of a tsunami of misunderstood events. But when they come they will reveal where you are standing. Hearing God's truth I thought was standing upon the rock, and I most likely was until I ran into one of life's obstacles. 

The rock, Christ, the Word, is what we should be building our lives upon. However whenever we go through trials and situations we can immediately want to jump ship and assume that on the sand will be better. Forgetting that going back to the sand will mean that we lose a higher perspective and when the waves come we will brought down to a lower perspective! So here I am, hit by an obstacle, about to take my foot off the rock and head for the sand. When I was reminded of the truth.

Will I build my thoughts on the rock, the Truth? Or will I build my thoughts on the sand, what I already know? God challenged me this year to not go back in my relationship with Him and other things. However when trials and tribulations come we can so easily give up. When the children of Israel left Egypt, a place of slavery and bondage, they faced many trials. God wanted them to have faith in Him, but instead they desired to go back to the place of chains, because it was what they knew! To stay on the rock, we must have faith, believing that God will take us to the destination that we need to get to.

Psalms 1 reads 'But his delight in the law of the Lord and on his law, he habitually meditates by day and by night. And he shall be like a tree firmly by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season...' Can you imagine trying to push down this tree? And the Bible says that blessed is the man who delights in God's truth and his mind is constantly planted in the Word. Not in what he thinks he knows or anything else for that matter. No one can stop the waves coming, no barricades can stop the trials and tribulation, but where will you plant you mind, your thoughts?

Will you build your thoughts on the rock, the Truth? Or will you build your thoughts on the sand, what I already know?