Matthew 7.24-27 You remember the story of three little pigs who rocked for many of us, our childhood? These three pigs: one built his house of straw, the wolf came and blew so hard that the house was completely destroyed. The second was built his wooden house, the wolf came and blew both the house has been completely devastated. The third has built his brick house. The wolf came and blew it, blew his lungs, but it could not overthrow the house where the three piglets were refugees and they were saved.
The Gospel, Jesus reminds us, is not only words. He is best actions: "Whoever listens to what I just said and put it into practice is like a wise man who built his house on rock. " Put into practice is the engine of every believer. It is not meant to shine by doing great things and wonders, miracles (in the sense we understand it), but to give substance to the words by the gesture.
As Jesus reminds us a bit higher: it is the will of his Father. Many will be persuaded to act in accordance with this exhortation, but in the eyes of God, they will hurt and will be unknown to Him on the Day of Judgement. Do the will of God the Father is summarized in the commandment of love that runs throughout the Bible: "Love the Lord your God with all thy heart and with all your soul and with all thy strength" (Deut. 6.5) and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Lev. 18.19).
In our relations with our neighbor, tendons, day after day in the little things of everyday life, to be built on rock, for he whom God places in our path, it sent her, her reflection . The men in the first century have seen, finally, God's face into that of Jesus the Nazarene. Today, the Lord is revealed also in those with whom we interact.
Doing the will of God, love beyond prejudices and differences, seek to meet the Lord in the eyes of others is what will make our faith, our home, resist the assaults of this world and blow when the Divine Judgement, it will not collapse.
locked in judgments to the punch, is walled in our convictions for fear of being undermined and called into question, condemn those who are different is to be the image of the foolish man who built his house upon the sand. Blow when the ruling of the Most High, like a violent wind, the house will not resist.
pray our Lord to base our relationship on the rock of faith in Him, and love doing His will, day after day.
Image source: personal photo (c) June 2007.
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