Rock Solid
When my children were young, they were avid rock collectors. I remember on one particular visit to my family in Arizona, my brother-in-law took the oldest three out for a hike. He, himself, is an ardent rock lover and he gushed with geological facts about many types of rocks they encountered. As you can imagine, their backpacks were extraordinarily weighty on our return flight home!
I suppose the kids come by it honestly, after all my dad really loved rocks. To be specific, Dad loved boulders and he amassed quite the collection in his yard. He especially loved boulders that were way too big and heavy for a person to move! Those big ones were what he was always looking for and they were statement pieces to his landscape design. I can remember Dad stopping when he saw a “good rock” that was in the middle of nowhere, belonging to nobody, and expecting me to help him get it into his car. He overestimated my help and underestimated the weight of the rock, and we had to leave without it.
One of the worst things about rocks is they are so difficult to move. A rock that appears to be a manageable armful is usually too heavy for me to budge an inch. The gorgeous boulders Dad admired on various golf courses would take heavy machinery to place.
One of the best things about rocks, however, is that they are so difficult to move! The same quality that leaves people sweating from struggle and frustration, can also be the very best quality of a rock. While the big beautiful ones are immovable, even small rocks have their challenges. Besides their size and weight, rocks are hard, and the rocks that most people admire are among the hardest. Gemstones, granite, and quartzite are beautiful, but they come at a high cost to mine, cut, and polish. Diamonds, for example, are the hardest mineral and are cut by using other diamonds. Even harder than diamonds are metamorphic rocks that have withstood immense pressure and heat deep within the earth.
What a blessing, then, to have an immense, priceless rock that cannot be fragmented or moved. Jesus is our immovable Rock. He is the Rock that gave water to Moses and Israel in the wilderness, the Rock Samuel’s mother, Hannah, and King David praised in songs of worship, and the Rock upon which Jesus said a wise man would build his house (I Cor. 10:4, I Sam. 2:2, II Sam. 22, Matt. 7:24-25). Those who try to move Him, change Him, or fight against Him will find themselves frustrated and eventually exhausted from the struggle. Conversely, those who lean fully on Him, rest on Him, and rely on Him as the foundation and support of their lives find safety and security in His firmness.
If your world feels like it is shifting, your footing feels unsure, and you need something firm on which to stand, He is still our immovable Rock today. If you are weary from pushing, pulling, kicking, and wrestling, He invites you to a relationship with Him today wherein you will find rest and security.
I love you fervently and devotedly, O Lord, my Strength. The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen and firm Strength in Whom I will trust and take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower. I will call upon the Lord, Who is to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
Psalm 18:1-3 (AMP)
