And the rains came down ...
With all this rain we've been getting I been thinking back to an old Vacation Bible School song we used to sing when I was young, The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock . It's based on a story Jesus told in Matthew 7 at the end of his longest recorded teaching that is often referred to as The Sermon on the Mount. When the rains came and the wind blew the wise man's house stood firm because it was built on the rock solid foundation of Jesus' teachings. On the other hand, the foolish man's house, which was built on the sand, fell apart when the winds and rain came because it wasn't built on Jesus' teaching. The song was always one of the favorites especially since it had fun hand motions. All us kids would raise our hands and mimic rain falling down and the fun part was when the foolish man's house went "splat"! The plain message of the parable is that some lives will be able to weather the storms of life w...