Wise Builder
So, then anyone who hears these words of mine and acts accordingly is like a wise man, who built is house on rock. The rain poured, the rivers flooded and the wind blew against that house, but it did not collapse because it was built on rock. Mathew 7:24.
Jesus speaks about the wise man here. A wise man is not an intelligent or clever one he is far more above than those people. A wise man is the one who never makes mistakes and his paths are always firm and secured, he does not lack anything and he don’t have to fear. Technically speaking no one can be wise enough to fit in the Wisdom of God for we all fall short of sin. But, we have hope in Christ where He says IF we hear His words and follow that, we are wise and whatever we build will not collapse. Let’s try to understand the words in a psycho- spiritual dimension.
As a human being what we constantly building is nothing less than our thoughts. We are building lots and lots of buildings in our thoughts. Our thoughts are so prompt and wide that it builds about anything and anyone. Our judgements, ideas, desires, passions, feelings, intuition everything is originated from our thoughts. Now when these thoughts are so powerful and viable to our life then how much we have to be careful on how we are building this in daily life.
We are so careless in our thoughts most of the time. We build our thoughts based on our past experience, future expectations, situations, circumstances, people around us and many more such factors. And, no wonder we miserably fail and suffer in most of the areas of our life. In this game of life there are very few people who are successful and peaceful in every dimension of their lives.
Some are financially successful but miss their relationship, some are successful in their relationship but fail in their intellectual ability, some are very strong intellectually but fail emotionally. But, being perfect is not only successful in every area of life but also in every dimension of our thinking. Success is not what we believe as success it is what others see in us as success, how balanced we are how peaceful we are how consistent we are in our lives, work and actions we take.
It’s a very simple logic that we are not able to perform in every area of our life successfully and when the flood comes and wind blew against the building it goes down with a mighty crash. The only way to build a house of peace, joy, prosperity and righteousness is in the words of Christ. Here Jesus is not only talking about the words in Bible, rather He is also talking about the Holy Spirit God who constantly speaks to us every single day.
He yearns us to listen to Him in every decision we make and every thought that comes across our mind. Paul strongly says in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
It is our primary Christian duty to captivate and bring every thought to obey Christ our Lord in order to be completely confident enough that we are building with not bricks but with words of Christ in our every day life. This not only makes our thoughts stronger but also helps us to demolish strongholds, arguments and every pretention that’s against the knowledge of God and grow closer to God in faith and love towards human being.
The most difficult person we find to tame and control in the world is ourselves. When we are able to bring our flesh into the submission of Christ and His principalities, He takes complete control over our life and whatever Thought Building He helps us to build stands forever even to eternity for He also promised us that what ever we bind on earth will be bound on heaven and whatever we lose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Mat 18:18.
Sol.Simon