Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines roared back to life after 600 years of quiet slumber in 1991.
When asked to account for the incredible destruction caused by this volcano, a research scientist from the Philippine department of volcanology observed, “When a volcano is silent for many years, our people forget that it’s a volcano and begin to treat it like a mountain.”
MATTHEW 7 contains the illustration of the wise man and the foolish man who both involved themselves in building a life:
“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
What have you started to treat as only a mountain in your life?
Give it some thought.
Gary