Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 6 verses 47 through 49:
47”I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them. 48That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, immediately it fell, and great was the ruin of that house.”
One of the most terrifying reports I read from this most recent tsunami which hit Indonesia was the fact that it was not only the overwhelming water which swamped the island villages, but actually the ground itself which shifted beneath the weight of the water and then too began to flow like a river. Nothing could stand amidst the moving earth.
Jesus said, the house fell because it was built upon faulty and fragile earth. It fell victim to the flood because it was ultimately only as steady as the earth beneath it. Jesus said the only way to avoid the collapse is for the house to be built on foundation deeper than even the earth. The builders would have to dig deeper into ground, beneath layers and layers of dirt and find the rock beneath.
Digging is hard work. It’s easier to build a faith on simple answers to complex problems, name it and claim it promises, and us versus them world views. But eventually the flood comes, and the ground shifts; and only the ones who have done the hard work of digging deep remain.
The rest have to start again; but this time with the wisdom of experience which tells them they need to bring not only a shovel, but perhaps even a backhoe.
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