“My lord, King…”

“My lord of the land where I live, lord of the house you own that I rent…”

“My lord, protector of the lands and neighborhood against the enemies which would destroy me and my family and take everything we have…”

“My lord, boss, administrator over my work and lord over my wages and payment…”

“Oh, Lord,” we exclaim of God or Christ; but it is a concept with with we have much difficulty.

“Oh, my God!” “Good Lord!” Once references to our helplessness in relation to Deity, now exclamation of our helplessness of self.

“OMG” – small god; BIG MY!

Will you bow down to our merciful Father in Heaven, Jesus asks?

Will a wife lord it over her husband?

Will a child lord it over its mother?

What do you mean when you call Christ Jesus your “Lord?”

Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

My grandparents were poor and could only afford a small house on a riverbank. I remember it well from my boyhood. We would walk in the side door off the gravel drive and up three steps to the right to enter the kitchen of the small house where my mom grew up. To the left several steps descended into the unfinished basement where the furnace and coal bin were located. Beneath the kitchen window in the back was a small river bank that descended in two levels to a plateau on level to the basement floor then another drop to the river (unless it was flooded). Their house was built on a riverbank of firm clay.

Yet many years in the spring the river would flood the entire neighborhood on the bend in the river. My grandparents would put the furniture up on cement blocks and wait for the water to recede. The house still stands after many years (in the neighborhood pictured above.)

Jesus speaks of two houses built on places of less and of more stability and again gives us a picture for consideration of our faith.

47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:

48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

49 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

“Do you mean to say that Jesus is still calling the multitudes to repentance?

OMG! (or should I say, Oh, my Lord?)”