“You can’t become what God wants you to be on a faulty foundation. We’re given a lot of different options for what will be the foundation of our lives: The popular culture; our own reason or our emotions…….To name a few….Popular culture changes, our reason can be faulty, and emotions lie. Yet God’s Word never changes…….You may not always understand his Word. You may not always like it. It won’t always be politically correct…….But it’s the only thing stable enough to build our lives upon……”

Gospel text: (Mt 7:21, 24-27)

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house. 
But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. 
And everyone who listens to these words of mine
but does not act on them
will be like a fool who built his house on sand. 
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house. 
And it collapsed and was completely ruined.”

 

Reflect, today, upon the foundation of your life.  Advent is a time when we examine whether or not the foundation of our life is Jesus.  He entered our world and took on flesh so that He could be that rock foundation.  And the path to that rock foundation is to listen, comprehend and act.  Set your “house” on Him in this way and no storm will erode the foundation of your life.