What words do you live by? There are words that exist at the deepest level of each of us that drive us to get out of bed every morning, that cause us to act the way we do, and that motivate us to move in the direction we are heading in life. At the end of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, he challenges listeners to replace the words we live by with the words he speaks. He says if we’re willing to live “these words” that our lives will not be shaken, even through life’s storms. In Matthew 7:24-27 Christ concludes his sermon with a parable drawing from his profession as a carpenter. He assures us we can build an unshakable foundation for our lives on his words.
