Thought for the Week: Building on rock, not sand

Michael Wright reflects on wisdom and foolishness

by Michael Wright 22nd September 2017

Hurricanes, rain and floods have been very much in the news recently, whether in the Caribbean or in Asia. Jesus is reported to have said: ‘Everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall.’ He contrasts this man with the foolish one who built on sand, whose house was destroyed… and ‘great was the fall of it’ (Matthew 7:24-27) in a statement that concludes the Sermon on the Mount.