Today, I am reading and commenting on Matthew 7-9.

I struggled with where to start on today’s blog because there were so many items in today’s passage which spoke to me.  After much thought I decided to begin with Jesus’ parable about the wise and foolish builders.  I think this parable provides a wonderful clarification on the “works vs faith” discussion.  In Ephesians 2 Paul writes:

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Many people focus on that first sentence.  They believe that it does not matter what they do, as long as they have faith in Jesus.  They are not entirely wrong, nothing we do, or can do, will provide us with salvation.  Our actions will not get us a “ticket” to spend eternity with God.  However, in today’s passage tells us that if we do not act on His words, we are fools.  Even in that passage from Ephesians Paul writes that God created us to do good works, which He prepared in advance for us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.