Knowing The Word in Luke 6:46-49, Build Your House on the Rock

Apparently, some of Jesus’ followers have already shown themselves to be false disciples without a strong foundation of faith. The person who hears Jesus’ teaching but does not act on it is building a life without Jesus at the center. The person with a good foundation has Jesus at the center of life and is not easily upset by life’s difficulties. But it is the supreme final test that is specially in Jesus’ mind.

46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Prayer: O Lord God, destroy and root out whatever the adversary plants in me, that with my sins destroyed you may sow understanding and good work in my mouth and heart; so that in act and in truth I may serve only you and know how to fulfil the commandments of Christ and to seek yourself. Give me love, give me chastity, give me faith, give me all things which you know belong to the profit of my soul. O Lord, work good in me, and provide me with what you know that I need.

Columbanus, c.550-615