“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…” — Matthew 7:24 (NKJV)
There’s a special kind of heartbreak that comes from watching something you built fall apart.
A career you sacrificed for.
A marriage you swore would be different.
A life plan that felt foolproof — until it wasn’t.
The truth is, what’s not built on the Lord won’t last.
It’s like stacking bricks on sinking sand — eventually, it caves under the pressure.
The song says it so clearly:
“I put my ruins into Your hands and watched You restore them like only You can.”
God isn’t intimidated by your ruins.
He expects us to come to Him broken, not picture-perfect.
He’s the God of restoration — but only if we hand Him the blueprints and let Him build His way.
We need to start be asking ourselves some difficult questions…
Where have I been trying to “build” on my own name or strength?
Am I trusting Jesus with the entire house, or just a few rooms I’m willing to surrender?
This is personal for me. I’ve seen it firsthand in my marriage. We leaned hard on our own understanding — our own coping habits, expectations, pride, and pain — and it cracked the foundation. We didn’t invite God to build it from the start; we just handed Him the wreckage and expected Him to bless it anyway.
Now, we’re separated. And I don’t know what reconciliation looks like — or if it’s even on the table. But I do know this: building without God at the center was a recipe for collapse. The ruin wasn’t random. It was the natural result of trusting our own blueprint instead of His.
I’m not sharing that to blame, but to confess: even with good intentions, even when you love deeply — if the foundation isn’t Christ, the whole thing stays on shaky ground.
The bricks might get battered by life.
The storms will come.
But if the Lord builds it, it will stand.
Today, let’s hand Him the keys:
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” — Joshua 24:15 (NKJV)
“Lord, I give You the blueprints. Tear down what needs tearing down. Build what needs building. I trust You to make it stand firm in Your Name. Amen.”
