Building a house.

I got this great picture from Jesus today.  The Scripture reference was Matthew 7:24-28:

24 “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25 Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. 26 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29 for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law.

I could picture a person sitting on a rock(a very large, almost island sized rock). And all around the person were building blocks. And the person was just sitting there, guess he was contemplating the blocks!!  Jesus is the Rock.  He is that person's Salvation.  His teachings and words are building blocks given to the person for his use. 

If the man just sits there on the Rock, doing nothing, he is leaving himself open to the winds, the floods, the torrents of the world and Satan and he will ultimately fall.  But if the man picks up (obeys) the building blocks and and creates around himself a house of Jesus' teaching then he will be protected from the elements that would topple a disobedient man.  

We can't just sit there.  We have to obey His words.  Wouldn't it be nice to just "sit there on Jesus, la la la, here I am sitting on Jesus, all is well" and never have to do a thing?  But that is not what we are being taught.  Jesus says we stand because we obey.  

I just wanted to share this really cool picture that God gave me this morning. Hope you can picture it as well and it gives you a desire for obedience as it did me.