Building on the Sand vs the Rock of Christ

We tend to scroll through dozens of posts on social media in a matter of seconds and never take a second thought about what kinds of information we are ingesting. I would encourage people to stop ingesting information so quickly! 

Here is an example: if we read 300 social media posts in 2 hours. It would be like walking through a crowded mall and listening to everyone's conversations. There probably isn't much information to glean from that situation. However, if we sat down and listened to a 30-minute lecture from a 30-year professional who spent 10 years researching a topic we are interested in. Their words will be loaded to the brim with information that we would probably have to study for hours to even begin to understand what they were talking about.

Imagine a person going around collecting a brick from 300 different people. Each brick is slightly different in shape; some are falling apart, others are rubber bricks, and some are made of steel and weigh a ton. Then, after that person has collected all those bricks, he starts to build a house with them. You can imagine the house won't work out! This is similar to what we do when accessing quick, non-researched, or poorly understood information. We are building a mental house of faulty bricks, and when the storm of life comes, the house will be destroyed.

Jesus preached this same message after he delivered the famous Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5-7:

[Matthew 7:24-27 ESV]

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”