Storms come to all. Some people are well grounded; they actually come out stronger after their trials and tribulations. Sadly, others falter and fall.

“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 (Matthew 7:24-27 NKJV).”

The collapse was great; the foolish man’s house was dilapidated!

The LORD’s house was once in need of repair.

“And Jehoash said to the priests, ‘All the money of the dedicated gifts that are brought into the house of the Lord—each man’s census money, each man’s assessment money—and all the money that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the house of the Lord,let the priests take it themselves, each from his constituency; and let them repair the damages of the temple, wherever any dilapidation is found (2 Kings 12:4-5 NKJV).”

Dilapidated houses can be rebuilt.

Broken lives are transformed.

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV).”