Thursday, 12/5/13
Jesus said that
everyone who listens to his words and acts on them would be like a man whom
built his house on rock. He said that at the end of his Sermon on the Mount, so
the word we are supposed to act on are the Beatitudes, and everything he said
about relying on God and about not praying or doing good just t be seen.
Let me tell one of
my old Korean stories about building on rock. It is a story about Peter and
Paul, two refugees from the north who found brides for themselves in the south.
The couples had been sharing a single room, but then they set out to build a
tworoom house for themselves, and I tried helping.
They started by
digging three-foot holes for he corner posts, and they dropped a boulder from
the river into each of the holes, sinking the posts onto them,
Peter’s wife Theresa
was near giving birth, so he took her south to her family’s house for the
birth, while I tried helping Paul finish the house. On the Black Market Paul
bought a giant spool of communication wire that he wove into nets between the
uprights, and I helped him slapping big handfuls of gooky clay on to the
netting for walls. I also helped binding down armfuls of straw for the roofing.
We were hit by a
typhoon that wiped out many houses in town, but our house built on those
boulders stood firm.
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