Just like you build your life. Basically, you consult an expert builder and acquire information, options and perhaps tools to design how you want to live, to be sure not to make mistakes. But first you need to make a list of features you want to include, decide where you are willing to compromise to reach your goal faster and get the most from your efforts.
There are some places you cannot compromise—on safety issues, some that require expertise and exact dimensions or your house will never be a safe haven. The measurements throughout must be precise to fit together and survive the storms you know it must face. Everybody on the project must use the same ruler to measure bits that must fit together! It will not survive if everyone brings his own favorite measuring tool, personally acquired from his own tool belt.
For our build to stand against fire and flood, there are certain decisions that cannot be based on whim or personal preferences. There truly are absolute rules, or truths, which cannot be ignored or avoided, where “my truth” or “your truth cannot stand.
Jesus explained the difference in a house built on sand instead of a rock: It simply cannot survive, and any builder learns this or he won’t be around very long. Yet even after several failed tries, many of us insist on relying on our imperfect preferences. We keep doing the same things again and expect different results rather than going to the Master Designer, who built this universe from stars to starfish to us (on His very first try), out of nothingness in the excellence of Hs technical/moral standards.
He has the blueprint to your life; you have only your mirror to go by—you don’t have all the facts. Where is your best chance of building a successful life? Not happy with His decisions? Tough! His Universe, His rules!
You probably have a narrow-minded friend who keeps telling you there’s only one road headed where you want to end up. And you think he’s just bragging that he/s got something you can't hope for—and you’re offended! But if he knocked on your door tonight to yell “YOUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE. WAKE UP! Are you offended? No, unless he had set the fire (and of course he did not) You’d listen and then call out to your sleeping family.
If your doctor gave you a terrible diagnosis, even though you are shocked and dismayed, you wouldn’t blame him.. On that day, he’s your best friend. He doesn’t carry bacteria or viruses in his black bag, but he recognizes them on sight..
Next time someone loves you enough to warn you that you’re on the
wrong road and the bridge just ahead is out, he is your best friend; he is
giving you the option (your free choice) to be rescued from your faulty view of
life. You have the same choice to make as he did—and that offer expires on the
day you die.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. '"just as life begins from union between a man and woman,, so spiritual life comes only through Jesus. Romans 3:24 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God Isaiah 53:6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all..
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Romans 2:12 Those people who don't know about God's Law will be punished for what they do wrong. And the Law will be used to judge everyone who knows what it says. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Even nature points to a loving Creator. Psalm 19 The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament shows His handywork, day unto ay uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.
