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In a little town down the
mountain from us, a retired couple bought a lot on a hill to build their
dream. They thought if they could spend
all their retirement savings and build a storage facility it would bring them
good income for the rest of their lives.
Of course the county made their dream more difficult because they would
be required to build a huge retaining wall to assure the business below them no
danger of landslides. So they did what
was necessary to make their dreams happen.
That was ten or eleven years
ago. Now the wall is crumbling away, it
started buckling at the base and eventually it has become an unsightly
nightmare. A small wall of cement rails
keep auto & foot traffic away from imminent danger of being crushed by
it. Twisted rebar and crushed
cinderblock protrude from the base like some kind of disemboweled
dinosaur. A few years ago they began to
cover it with plastic in hopes that slowing the rain erosion might prevent the destruction. Instead, plastic sheeting is being shredded
as the falling block rips and tears at it.
How much like this is a person
whose intent and purpose is to build all their hopes and dreams on anything
less than a foundation with eternal solidity.
You work, scrimp and save to build a dream. You pour your blood, sweat and tears into
designing it and you give shape to the structure of your imagination. The only problem is, it’s being constructed
on the weakest, most vulnerable of undergirdings.
The God Who created us, designed
a rock-solid foundation for a life to be built upon. He could have no friendship with sinful man
so he became sinless man to bear the cost for that sin. He invites the lost, the blind, the dying to
build where our structure will stand, unharmed by the wind, floods and
earthquakes of life.
Why do people not understand
this? I simply don’t understand what is
SO great about a life that is destined to end up like the Great Wall of
Coarsegold?
Whenever we drive through that
little town, it reminds me to pray for those who don’t understand; the lost,
the defiant, the confused, the rebellious.
Oh Father, please open their
eyes! And please use me in any way that
might help!
Matthew 7:24 – 27 “Therefore everyone who hears
these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built
his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell,
and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet
it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26
Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be
like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27
The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed
against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
