{"id":2883,"date":"2019-10-14T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2019-10-14T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:07:24","slug":"lessons-from-a-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/2019\/10\/14\/lessons-from-a-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From A Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Matthew 7:21-29<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>v\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">7:24<\/a>\u00a0Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.\u00a0\u2014<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When a section of fence around our house blew down in a howling March wind, my first reaction was to blame the man who built it for me only a few months before. On further reflection, I knew the fault was mine. As the fence was nearing completion, I told him there was no need to replace four existing posts from the previous fence with new ones set in concrete. \u201cJust attach the new fence to the old posts,\u201d I said. \u201cIt will be fine.\u201d It was\u2014until the winds came.<\/div>\n<div>Jesus told a powerful story to emphasize the importance of building our lives on the solid foundation of obeying His Word. \u201cWhoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand\u201d (Matt. 7:24-26). When the wind and rain beat against the houses, only the one built on the rock remained standing.<\/div>\n<div>Hearing God\u2019s Word is essential, but doing what He says is the key to weathering the storms of life. It\u2019s never too late to start building on the Rock.<\/div>\n<div><strong>PRAYER<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em><strong>Dear Lord, I seek to build my life on the foundation of your Word. Help me to be faithful. Amen<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><strong>THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>When the world around you is crumbling, God is the Rock on which you can stand.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Christian Education Forum, Diocese of NAE of the Mar Thoma Church<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew 7:21-29 v\u00a07:24\u00a0Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.\u00a0\u2014 When a section of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Matthew7-21-29.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detroitmarthoma.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}