Building Your Life on the Rock | Jesus’ Parables
For as long as I can remember, truck ads for GM have use Bob Segar’s song, “Like A Rock.” Of course, the idea General Motors wants to convey is that their trucks are strong and reliable. I’ve never owned one, so I don’t know if the image is appropriate or not. What I do know is that Jesus used the stability of a rock two millennium beforehand to speak of the faithful child of God.
As the discourse commonly called the sermon on the mount drew to a close, the Lord made a contrast be-tween those who do His will and those who merely hear it. He could simply have said the first is wise and the latter is foolish (which He did do), but to help illustrate and to make the teaching memorable, He employed a parable about two builders. His teaching is not complex; in fact, Matthew 7:24-27 has been fashioned into a simple children’s song. My first introduction to this text, as yours may also have been, was that song.
