Ashes to Glory- Sample two Foundations

The sky turns dark. There is a heaviness in the air that tells us something is coming. The wind is gentle and refreshing at first and then picks up pace. Soon the drizzle turns into streaks of stinging rain and the wind is throwing things in your face. Water surrounds your ankles. You go into your house. The structure that is supposed to protect you in the storm.
When was the moment they realized the sand was wasn’t going to hold? Was it the cracking of the walls and floors as they shifted with their structural weakness? Was it the shift they felt under their feet? The foundation won’t hold. It is all coming down, and “it fell with a great crash.”

Jesus wasn’t instructing carpentry 101 even though I am certain he is qualified to do so. He was trying to speak to the people about the foundation of their lives. What they stood on and for. He gave them, all of them listening, the answer for survival. Not just how to survive but how to flourish. Hear my words! Put them into practice. Build on the unshakable foundation of God’s trusted and true words.

Shifting and voids. Conditional truths and illusion of beauty. Feelings not vows. Convenience not sacrifices. My wants, my feelings, my expectations, and eventually my failures. The storm will come. It will bring a hell fury like none you have seen. When you stand on what you know, what will sustain you? Will it hold against the storm? After the destruction of this storm passes, will you still be standing on the firm rock foundation? Or will the ocean of life sweep over you claiming your castles and treasures?