Isaiah 26:4
“Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.”
Recently I read a Christian Fiction Book where one of the main characters asked why she always had to hit the rocks and holes in the road of life. When I was younger I often felt that way, because like the character from the story I felt I had to transverse these roads by myself.
Now I look at the rocks in the road differently. I read a book many years ago that asked if those rocks were stumbling blocks or stepping stones. It has taken me many years but I am much closer to using them as stepping stones. The image of a Rock is often used in the New Testament to refer to a safe, solid place or person of strong faith. For instance, the wise man built his house on a Rock (Matt. 7:25) and Jesus changed Simon’s name to Peter-meaning Rock (Matt 16:18).
When watching Adam Hamilton’s, Journey to Bethlehem DVD, I learned that poorer people in Jesus time would sometimes form their homes out of the rocks. They used the rocks to provide safe shelter for their families. I pictured the Pueblos in northern New Mexico when he was talking.
Now I know that I do not have to stumble over the rocks only to fall into the holes beyond them. I know God lives inside me (if I don’t shut that door). I know God provides people to help me use those Rocks as building blocks to shape a closer relationship with God. I know that God and the people He provides will help me sidestep the holes in the road of life. I know all this because over the years I have learned above all else to TRUST God; HE IS MY ROCK.
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