Every house is tested. The difference is not in the weather; it is in the foundation upon which the house is anchored. Oh how many persons have I seen who are in the midst of crisis run back to the church and attempt to get religion, but my friends it is not that easy. It is a foolish person who thinks they can begin constructing a proper foundation when they are in the midst of the storm and the flood waters. When life is rushing upon us; it is then too late. The time to build is in the time of calm, during ordinary day-to-day living.

C. S. Lewis, one of the preeminent theologians and writers of our lifetime discovered the truth of that. He tells of the great storm that came in his life when his wife died in his book A GRIEF OBSERVED. He experienced loneliness the likes of which he had never known. He tried to reason to himself that he had been happy before he had been married and that he could once again reclaim that. But then a memory would flash through his mind and the pain would resurge once again.

It was in his hour of grief that C. S. Lewis turned to God and used those inner resources that God had been equipping him with for so many years. He wrote:"You never know how much you believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you. I realized that if my house collapsed with this one mighty blow, it was indeed a house of cards." C. S. Lewis' house endured the storm because he had built his house upon the rock of God's word.