Luke 6:46-48 “’Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do NOT DO what I say? As for everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and puts them into practice (practical=wisdom), I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood (disaster) came, it struck that house but it could not shake it (overcome it), because it was well built.’”
There is great wisdom here in both spiritual and practical ways; for the spiritual and physical are connected, working together, as Jesus always taught – in using the physical life to teach the spiritual life.
Here in this parable of the wise and foolish builders I see a truth application for the WISDOM needed for our day; a prophesied time that Jesus said we (His people) should expect, as His Day approaches.
What should we expect? PANDEMICS! NATURAL DISASTERS! CHAOS! WARRING! PERSECUTION! And “all the more,” Jesus said, as His Day approaches.
Here in America God’s people (His Church) for the most part, are NOT ready for what is coming, not in practical ways that is. They are under the delusion that there is no need to prepare in practical ways because God will meet their needs no matter what happens. Certainly, God has given us promises, but all His promises come with conditions because the spiritual and the physical work together.
If you are not prepared in practical ways, how will you be one whom God can use to help others in times of disasters, chaos and persecution? When you are not prepared in physical ways as well as spiritual ways – how can God use you to be His vessel to help people who are not prepared? There’s a very good reason God allows these things to happen on the earth. He uses it to draw people to Himself; for it is His will that none perish in their sins, but that all be saved by faith in Christ Jesus, the Savior of the world.
Why should God’s people be the ones ‘unprepared’ because they did not listen to the Holy Spirit and “do what He says”? (Luke 6: 46) God has always ‘prepared’ in advance for what would come against His people one day.
We have many examples in the Bible of how God prepares. God prepared in how baby Moses was saved from death and then raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, and later to become the deliverer of God’s people in Egypt 400 years later when they were slaves.
Jacob’s 11th son, Joseph, who was hated by his jealous brothers and sold to gypsies, later imprisoned – became Pharaoh’s right arm, trusted with all of Egypt’s power and prosperity, that Joseph would later be the help for Joseph’s family (God’s chosen people) in time of famine.
God prepares, and so should we by listening to the voice of God’s Spirit in our day, because of what is inevitably coming against the Church of Jesus Christ in America, as it has to His people in other parts of this world.
I believe the church in America needs to apply the Lord’s rebukes in His letters, about being rich (in comparison) and very spoiled and self-centered, about tolerating the spirit of jezebel in our homes and churches where women dictate and lead men and abort their babies (child sacrifice), about running God’s church like a business for ‘religion’ and worldly gain, about denominational ‘hierarchies’ dictating rules and regulations for worship, about social apathy, about sexual immoralities, about Israel’s land and who are true Jews, about having left your first love Jesus Christ, and the things you did for Him when you first knew Him wholeheartedly.
Here in America – we God’s people – have A LOT to repent of! To whom much has been given, as God has done in America to bless us, much is required from us – by God as well. He’s not about spoiling us but about being able to use us for His good purposes.
If we think that because we live in America – we won’t need to do anything different to prepare for anything that would happen that could (and will) alter our lifestyles – we are foolish, just as Jesus taught in this parable about the FOOLISH builder who did not do what the Lord said to do, compared to the WISE builder who did what the Lord said to do.
With this Coronavirus that they are calling a pandemic – we are getting a ‘small taste’ of things to come. Now we are seeing our lives ‘somewhat’ altered because of the fear of the virus spreading throughout our nation, but we should understand what God is wanting us to realize and learn from it, to pay attention to what the Spirit is saying, because those who are wise will SEE and take advantage of the ‘opportunities granted’ by God in any time of disaster and persecution.
“See, I have placed before you an ‘open door’ (opportunities) that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept MY WORD and have not denied MY NAME…..Since you have kept MY COMMAND to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the ‘hour of trial’ (Great Tribulation) that is going to come on the WHOLE world to TEST the inhabitants of the earth.” (Revelation 3:8,10 – to the Philadelphia Church a.k.a. New Jerusalem: the Faithful Spirit-filled disciples of Jesus Christ.)