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“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who builds his house on a rock”.
Matthew 7: 24
In John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, he explains that trials and tests locate a person. He says that it determines your spirituality and reveals the true conditions of your heart.
How we react under pressure is how our real person or our true character reacts.
To give illustration to this principle Bevere used two different types of houses. We can have a house built on sand that is five stories high and beautiful, decorated with the most elaborate materials and craftsmanship. As long as the sun is shining, it looks like bulwark of strength and beauty.
Next to that house you can have a single story plain house. It is almost un-noticeable and possible unattractive compared to the beautiful building next to it. But it’s built on something you can’t see-a rock.
As long as no storm strike, the five story house looks much nicer. But when it encounters a severe storm, the five story house collapses and is ruined. It may survive a few minor storms but not the hurricane. The plain, one story structure survives. The larger the house the harder and more noteworthy it’s fall.
Many Christians are like the five story house. They look nice, they say all the right things, and they seem so spiritual. But when there is a major storm in their life they are shaken and fall away from the faith. Many other Christians are like the one story plain house, they don’t have flashy spiritual gifts, they are not in front of the congregation all of the time, and they don’t seek the spotlight; but they never waiver in their faith. What kind of house are we depends on how we react to pressure.