To do each day what will please Jesus. As He says when He begins this story of the Two Builders: "To hear these sayings of His and to do them," is the sure way of having a building that will last when the storms of life overtake us.
If you watch the people who bear trouble the best, who are patient in trial, hopeful in adversity, brave in difficulty, triumphant in death, you will find that it is they who have built on the Rock Jesus Christ, and have found that there is security and peace there.
And then about the house on the sand?
Oh, what desolation to find that what you thought was all pleasant and bright will not last, but the insecure foundation melts away, and the hopes founded upon it fall to pieces.
If you have even a misgiving that you are not on the true Foundation, give up your earthly plans and make a fresh start.
The Arms of love and mercy are ready to embrace you, and one of those wonderful sayings of Jesus is: "Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out."
"The Foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal: The Lord knoweth them that are His."
[XXI. The Labourers in the Harvest]
In the Bible we have many vivid pictures in which God would teach us, by earthly things, concerning His heavenly things.
This Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard is one of these pictures. We have the account of it in the 20th chapter of Matthew.