Good Wednesday Morning!
1. Question – You know the big bad wolf is coming your way – don’t you?
2. Thought – Interestingly, Jesus never said, “Believe my arguments.” He said, “Follow me.” Jesus himself had his own kind of “Pascalian wager” at this point. At the end of his longest recorded talk, he told a story about the construction business, in which houses get built wisely or foolishly. It always reminds me of the story of the three little pigs. Each character builds a house. Each house faces a test. Houses built wisely survive; houses built foolishly crumble.
Here is the challenge of the story: We all are house builders. Our houses are our lives, and we construct them out of the choices we make dad by day. Like it or not. This is not optional. We are launched. We have to put our houses somewhere.
We are all storm facers. We will all face trails and ultimately death. The big bad wolf is coming our way. This is not optional.
We will choose how we construct our lives. We will choose the convictions we build them on. We can build them on rock or straw. We can make them of wood, hay, or brick.
The risk doesn’t go away. We cannot know ahead of time how the house will stand up to the storm. Still, we all have to build a house. (Faith & Doubt by John Ortberg)
“Faith is a footbridge that you don’t know will hold you up over the chasm until you’re forced to walk out onto it.” (Nicholas Wolterstorff)
