On occasion inept builders fail to carefully follow the architect’s plan and the resulting building is rendered unstable and requires demolition and starting all over again. In similar vein, Jesus spoke of those who foolishly build their houses on sand—instead of rock—and storms and raging waters easily destroy such constructions. Taking these as analogies for our spiritual lives, we are reminded that God is not going to shore up a house built on sand, or one that has ignored the divine architect’s loving plan. Indeed, God usually assists its destruction or demolition! However, this is never vindictive or purely destructive, and so God assures us through the Prophet Amos, I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it. Unfortunately, with our spiritual shortsightedness we resist the necessary destruction of our house built on sand, since we don’t trust that it will be rebuilt. So, like the person placing new wine in old wine skins, we persist in trying to rebuild our spiritual home on the same shifting and unstable sands of our still unredeemed hearts. Death will, of course, rob us of any say in the matter, but we can choose to not wait until then, and actually cooperate with God’s work in destroying the faulty building, so that we may be rebuilt on the rock of God’s Truth and thus possess that sturdiness and indestructibility that trusting and authentic humility guarantees.