The reason we read, study and meditate on the Word is so that we can walk in the light of what we receive from God’s Word. Anytime God gives you a revelation in His Word, He demands an action on your part. The real challenges in life are not the storms that may confront you but rather how well prepared you are to overcome them. This is why you must build your life on the word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (KJV). Reproof, Correction and Instruction in righteousness can be broadly categorized as instructions. From this passage therefore, we can see that ¾ of all scripture serves as instructions for us. The main purpose of the Word is to show you how to live your life. Therefore, if you have no plans of doing the Word, then the Bible is not the book for you.
Matthew 7:24-25 (The Message Translation)
“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. 25 Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit — but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock”.
It is your duty to work the Word of God into your life. This is what will make you outlive your challenges whilst others lose their lives’ work and sometimes their very lives. You will be smiling at the storm if your life is built on the truth of God’s Word: you will simply be indestructible.
Luke 6:47-48 say,
“47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.”
You must come; you must hear and you must do His sayings; yet coming, hearing and doing Jesus’ word will not exempt you from the storms, but will exempt you from being destroyed by them. When the Word becomes flesh in you, the storms that beat vehemently upon you cannot even shake you. There is a way to act on the Word of God in every area of your life. Those who do not want to be washed away by the storms and floods of life, but want to become significant representations of God and His Kingdom in the earth, are those who are really serious about walking in the light of God’s Word. You cannot walk in the Word you do not know. This is why we hear, read, study and meditate on the Word of God. Therefore, take personal responsibility to know the truth of God’s Word and make an eternal commitment to walk in the light it. When you do that, you will not only preserve your life, but also the lives of others.
What will happen if you are not a doer of the Word? Jesus answered that in Matthew 7:26-27:
“And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it”.
So you see, it is not how fast you build that matters but how well you build.
Building upon the rock is doing the Word. The Message Translation captured this beautifully in Matthew 7:13, 14 & 21
“Don\’t look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don\’t fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. 14 The way to life — to God! — is vigorous and requires total attention. 21 Knowing the correct password — saying \’Master, Master,\’ for instance — isn\’t going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience — doing what my Father wills”.
It is very clear that we should not use the shortcut and the easy way out for a successful life, which is the favorite of many. Becoming an enduring success requires vigorous and total attention to the Word. You need to give yourself to doing the Word. Let the Word be the reason for what you do. In whatever you find yourself doing –whether as a carpenter, doctor, politician, businessman/woman, educationist, policeman, banker, mason, pastor or any area of calling, let the Word be your life and light.
Beloved, which of the builders would you rather be, the wise or the foolish? Jesus has already shown us the end of both builders. However, merely wishing you want to be a wise builder does not make you one. It takes doing the Word to become a wise builder-One whose building (life’s work) outlives the storms of life. Become an obsessive practitioner of the Word!
Inspired Thoughts:
If you have no plans of doing the Word, then the Bible is not the book for you – William Burckson
Coming, hearing and doing the sayings of Jesus will not exempt you from the storms, but will exempt you from being destroyed by the storms. – William Burckson.
Those who do not want to be washed away by the storms and floods of life, but want to become significant representations of God and His Kingdom in the earth, are those who are really serious about walking in the light of God’s Word. – William Burckson.
