Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, which built his house on a rock: But what can the hurricane do? Just what the elements do in nature. Whatever they do not break, they consolidate. Your trials will only consolidate — they will consolidate your principles, your affections, your hopes — they will make you, on "the Rock," yourselves a rock. Judgments may fall from above, like the descending " rain." Disappointments, afflictions, persecutions, may swell around you, like rolling "floods." Temptations may buffet you with all the mysteriousness of the invisible "wind." Yet St. Luke says, "They could not shake it." The strength of "the Rock" is in the believer — he passes all his troubles on to his "Rock," and from his "Rock" he draws his strength. And the eternal unchangeableness of the foundation, makes the poorest, weakest stone that is once fastened to it, unshaken and impregnable as the throne of Jehovah. (J. Vaughan, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: |
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