Sand Castles

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
Matthew 7:24-27
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I was reminded of a Switchfoot song, ‘Gone’
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Life is more than money, time was never runny.
Time was never cash, life is still more than girls.
Life is more than hundred dollar bills and roto-tom fills.
Life is more than fame and rock and roll and thrills,
All the riches of the kings end up in wills
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Where's your treasure, where's your hope
if you get the world and lose your soul?

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what we build our lives on is important...
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if we based our lives on now, on worldly wealth and riches, of careers
or worldly relationships, on acceptance
even of family
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these things don’t count towards eternity...
‘the 2 biggest things a christian faces
one is persecution
the other is seduction by the world... christians normally can face the former, but many fall with the latter ’
(Charles)
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we end up losing our first love for God
over something else much less significant
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compared to basing our lives upon eternity
and living each day for Him
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so we can stand together in the end of time and worship Him
and there is nothing that can compare to the joy that comes from that
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where God..
...will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
(Rev 21:3-4)
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we do know that like in the parable
where the guy builds his house on the ‘ROCK’
in which he has to work very hard to chisel away at the rocks to lay his foundation
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likewise leading a life based to following Jesus and His gospel is not easy
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compared to the guys who can easily construct his house on sand,
and like how after the tsunami, these houses get washed away
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hence the former is a better choice, better than something temporal

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many times I build my life upon many insignificant things
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it was once upon computer games
upon getting the highest score
upon winning every game
and ‘pwning’ every opponent to get the ‘holy sh*t BEYONG GODLIKE’ kill streak
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after that it was upon being accepted by a girl whom I really loved a lot
and even to base my life upon doing things to make her happy and comfortable
at the expense of everything else
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but I come to realise that after all
everything will pass on in the end
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but God remains faithful...
and He’s the one I should base my life upon
not anything else
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