How do you want to see it?
How others see it, is in-consequential. Especially if how
you see it how GOD sees it.
The view matters. Think of the saying Jesus gives of the 2
in the building of their house. The one builds his house on the sand. This we
know without the coming storm in mind.
Matt 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house
upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. KJV
Another translation reads…
Matt 7:26 But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores 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 fall with a mighty crash." NLT
How our day turns out when trouble comes, is determined for
how we planned for it. Often, there are tests that come to see what we are made
of. The problem with that is this. Until pressure comes we don’t often know
what we are made of.
Life without pressure is as we all know, no such thing.
Yet, having the view to see the day of such a storm coming
gives us the knowledge and understanding to plan for it… This is of course if
we take the correct view. Because having the correct veiw gives us the ability
to know to prepare for it in advance.
Too many of us at a time when the crash of a storm comes we
are often left with the shambles from the aftermath of the storm. No matter that
we didn’t see it coming. No matter that we failed to see the looming clouds. No
matter that we were deceived into seeing things other than its warning signs, simply
because of our own distractions.
Here is what I have found. Most people do not intentionally
seek to build on things that are false. Many people are headed for destruction,
not because they were intent on being swept out to sea. Or they desired to
suffer the loss of everything. I don’t see people refusing to see as they
should. Just hoping one day that the storm will come and claim everything they
have and what they labored so hard to build. I don’t see those that started out
in stubbornness, so they can be labeled as one who has lost because they thought
they were right. I don’t believe its people willful in shirking their
responsibility, for the sake of what they think is a good thing. I don’t see
folks refusing to take caution in the building and the protecting of their
lives and those who they love, because they think that’s a good thing. I don’t see
people intending to build a foundation for their children and grandchildren’s
lives on the sand for the sake of them having it all swept away.
I think it is this one thing. They don’t see it. They don’t
have the view not because their hearts are set on being lost. Nope, one thing.
That is this, they are thoughtless. They just to put it simply, didn’t think
about it. To be lost over ignorance. There is such a thing. The guy who built
on the sand he could claim ignorance all he wanted, it did not, and it would
not reclaim what the storm had come and taken.
Surely, people have had the storm winds come and blow upon them
and their loved ones. Surely life is at times seem to have been unfair. But was
it unfair to the man that built his house on the sand without the question or a
plan for a possible storm one day?
We all have had doors slammed in our faces. Life has dealt us
all unforeseen things that we could easily choose to see as rejection to us. But
what was the view you had when it came? Where did it leave you?
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Are you still the victim and as recourse you
chose to react by crying over what the storm took?
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Are you still playing the victim card with pity
party’s that only you come to?
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Or did the storm leave in its wake one who is
angry or frustrated over those that did not come by to help with your storm?
Can we see it as a means of not rejection but a re
direction? We have often thought. I am headed to a good place and suddenly out
of nowhere the bus we never saw comes through our intersection. How often the
story would be different if we could see it as to how GOD wants us to tell it.
Yes, the storm came and while I have suffered the loss of
some stuff and I have a few bruises because of it. Of all the things I thought I
would have, I was thoughtless. I was careless. My foundation was shallow. I was
on the sand with no thought of a coming storm. However. I have learned, that
the fella down the road whose foundation is on the rock. He’s fixing to get a new
neighbor. I don’t see this storm rejecting me I see my storm re directing me.
How do you see it? What have you built on? Are you aware of
the coming storm clouds? Perhaps your on the other side of it. How do you see it now?
