The 7/24 verse for today is Matthew 7:24. Jesus said, "Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock." NLT
I was reading Greg Laurie's preface to a devotional he authored entitled, For Every Season Vol III. It talks about the storms of life and their inevitibility. He said the key isn't avoiding the storms, because no one is able to do that. The key is being ready for the storms.
As in everything, we have choices to make. God allows us to make our own choices in life - good and bad. In the Message translation of the passage above, it enlikens a smart carpenter building his house on the solid rock as a picture of taking Jesus' words to heart and putting them into practice. Will doing so exempt us from the storms? Unfortunately not, but when the storms come, we can be ready. We can choose to be fixed to the Rock. Again, that is the key.
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