Are you living on the edge?

Some Christians give no meaning to the word living on the edge. When Christ told us to build our house on the rock (see Matthew 7:24-25), He wasn't talking about building it out on the edge, and the propping the ends up with stilts!

Yet when we allow our own wants and ways to take the place of God's wants and ways we are propping our house up on stilts overlooking the depths of the abyss.

Why would a Christ follower do such a thing? Allow his or her wants and ways to take the place of God's wants and ways? We should give this some thought before jumping up too quickly in judgment, as it is something that can take us by surprise in little and subtle ways if we are not careful.

Many times we do not start out to build our house so far out from the edge of the rock, but we allow a gradual slide to take place as so many people and things compete for our attention and as we are challenged on every side about what it really means to be a Christ follower.

God calls us to be radical for Jesus, as anything less than that is mediocre or lukewarm, and God says in Revelation 3:16 that lukewarmness makes Him sick to His stomach (actually, it literallysays that God will spew us out of His mouth if we stay lukewarm).

If you are not growing in Christ, you are in a gradual slide mode, and without even knowing it, your house is edging away from the solid foundation of the rock and is more and more relying on wood stilts to prop it up and keep everything from tumbling down.

Wood, hay, and stumble will not withstand the refining fire and judgment of God, and God wants us to build our house solidly on the rock for good reason. As Jesus said, "and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded on the rock." (Mt. 7;25) Rain will come. Floods will come. Storm winds will come, and will beat on our house. The question is not whether disasters will come and threaten our house, but whether our house will withstand the disasters that come.

Yours in Him,

Pastor B.