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“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27, NIV)

Building codes may seem complicated, tedious, and expensive, but they exist for a reason. Ignore them, and someone is going to get electrocuted, the toilet won’t drain right, or the basement will flood. A friend of mine in plumbing had a guy who wanted to put a wood-burning stove in his garage. These require very expensive, double-walled stainless steel pipe. He just wanted to use the existing duct work. “You can’t,” my friend said, “It’s too hot. It’ll melt the pipe and burn your garage down.”

His response: “I don’t care.”

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has laid out the “best practices” for life construction. Now it’s up to us to decide if they’re worth the effort. Often, they strike us as unrealistic—pie-in-the-sky stuff. The truth is we are the ones who are unrealistic. We use gas line for water, then rage when the fittings leak.

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