When you’re around a pond, you’re bound to see rocks. And if you’re not wearing the proper footwear, you can get a rock in your shoe, as I did this particular day. Ouch! Ok, it was more like a pebble, but it got my attention and I had to sit down to remove it.
You know what happened…I started to ponder. Rocks are hard, solid, and sturdy…just like my Lord, Jesus Christ. The bible refers Him as the Rock in many places.
ll Samuel 22:32 says,
“For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?”
My hearts daily desire is spoken in Psalm 19:14…
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
And I love what Psalm 18:2 says…
“The Lord is my Rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God is my Rock in whom I take refuge.”
Yes, I have taken refuge in Him many times and when I do I feel safe and secure. Because of asking Him to be my Rock and my Redeemer, I am rock solid in my salvation. I feel secure in my Fathers love. I feel secure in His promises. I feel secure in the fact that my heavenly home will be there when it is my time to go. The Rock is the foundation of my marriage. That is why it has lasted as long as it has. Not because we have a perfect marriage. It is not. It could have easily crumbled with insecurities, selfishness, and immaturity had we not had the Rock as our foundation.
Not because Keith and I are two perfect people. We definitely are not. We are two sinners saved by grace who invited the Rock into our lives when we were 9 and 12. When we were married He was brought into that union.
There have been times in the last 29 years I know the Lord was not pleased with our attitudes or how we handled things. Like I said, Keith and I are not perfect people, but our foundation is solid as a Rock and that has given us the security that even though we made mistakes, the Lord was there to convict us, to fill us with grace and forgiveness for each other and our love has only grown stronger and deeper.
Neither one of us has ever had the fear of our marriage crumbling because we knew our foundation was strong. Winds can come and blow and shake things around at times, but the house will not fall unless it’s built on sand as the story goes told by Jesus in Matthew 7:24-27…
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain cam down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Is your foundation feeling shaky? Examine yourself and your situations. Are you trusting in the Lord to be your rock, to hold you up, to give you strength, to guide you through tough times, to give you love and grace that you can pass on to others? Or do you trust in something else; maybe in yourself, or your spouse, or someone else? Do you trust only in your job for security? Do you trust in your bank account, your education, etc…you fill in the blank. If these things were to go, would you crumble? Yes, we would be sad, and we would grieve, but would we be strong, because our foundation is built on the Rock, or would we crumble because it is not?
I believe God put that rock in my shoe to remind me of all this because I was feeling a little shaky from circumstances that happened this day. Once I removed the pebble from my shoe, I stood surefooted on the ground, smiling as I headed home knowing my Lord, my Rock was with me and He was never going to leave me. I walked up the path humming an old hymn. You may know it… “On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand.”
“Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.”
Isaiah 26:4
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