BBD 11.07.07 Building Your Life
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11.07.07
Building Your Life
Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken
him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended,
the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not
fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings
of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his
house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds
blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. - Matthew
7:24-27.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been famous for centuries, however, it is no
longer the most leaning or tilted tower in the world. According to the
Guinness Book of World Records, the tower with the most lean in the world is
to be found at Suurhusen, Germany. The new world record holding tower of
lean is a church steeple that is 25.7 meters in height with a tilt angle of
5.07 degrees. The Tower of Pisa tilt angle is only 3.97 degrees. However,
the Tower of Pisa is more than twice as tall as the steeple and in the
opinion of many is more beautiful than the steeple but it no longer holds
the record. At least it is scheduled to lose that status with the publishing
of the 2009 edition of the Guinness book.
This story was especially interesting me since the tornado we had induced a
severe lean to our church steeple (It is only 26 feet tall.). It knocked the
steeple completely over and it was barely hanging on by a twisted bolt
immediately after the tornado. Our steeple has now been repaired and
reinstalled. On the day that it was reinstalled the crew working on the
projected kept adjusting the steeple so that it would be straight. Depending
on what direction you are looking from the steeple does appear to be
straight although from one direction I am not sure. I have told everyone to
just remember that our steeple has gone through a tornado. It just has a
little more character than it had in the past.
The reason for the leaning of the Tower of Pisa is the result of a poorly
laid foundation on soil that allowed the foundation to sink causing the
entire tower to lean. The faulty foundation was the cause of the entire
problem. There has been a large amount of money spent in the last century
and this century to try to stabilize the structure and they hope those
efforts will succeed.
In a very real spiritual sense, our lives are buildings. Each day we build
our lives a little more. The success of all of this building effort is
dependent upon the foundation. What is it that we are building our lives
upon? Matthew 7:24-27 is the ending of the Sermon on the Mount by Jesus. If
we want the right kind of foundation for our lives, we will build as Jesus
describes beginning in Matthew chapter 5. If we have that kind of foundation
for our lives when the tornado comes it may knock us down but we will rise
up and continue on with even more character than before. However, without
the right kind of foundation we will not just lean or fall but we will be
washed away when the storms of life come our way.
You can work hard all your life and have billions of dollars in your bank
account but without the right foundation, your life will not stand when
judgment comes. We need Jesus as the foundation of our lives or everything
we do in life will have been wasted.
What is the foundation of your life? Who is the foundation of your life?
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