“…when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2b
Today’s headlines (even though few get a newspaper anymore) and news broadcasts, and just knowing in general, what’s transpiring all around us; locally, within our friends and own families, we often forget the ROCK upon which our redemption, faith and future is built upon. The ROCK, Christ Jesus is still as stable, sure and secure as He has ever been.
Before writing these words, snippets of old hymns opened the pages of my mind and lyrics from the pens of anointed songsters registered on the lines of my heart—
—My anchor holds and grips the solid rock, This Rock is Jesus! —Through my disappointments, strife and discontentment, I’m Standing on the Rock of Ages…and, —O then to the Rock let me fly,… that is higher than I…also, —Isaac Watts wrote, “Thro’ all His mighty works amazing wisdom shines-subdues the powers of hell, confounds their dark designs. Strong is His arm and shall fulfill His great decrees & …will.”
Wherever you are and whatever you are facing today, you can be confident that beyond the shifting sands of our days, the ROCK that never moves and ever loves us, forever holds! The writer of the Hebrews encouraged us with these words: “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast,…” (Heb. 6:19a). – T.G.