The word “rock” likely ushers a thought to mind immediately. You may picture a pebble in a bubbling creek, a boulder on a cliff, or a mountainous cavern. A soundtrack might start streaming through your head as you drift back to the 80’s. Or, scenes of the infamous actor could forever mark your association with that term.
In the Bible, though, “rock” means something entirely different. Of course, there were literal stones, clefts, and caves, featured in several stories. But those were a mere representation of their Maker, the true Rock.
“For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?” – 2 Samuel 22:32
“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides You; there is no rock like our God.” – 1 Samuel 2:2
“The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is He.” – Deuteronomy 32:4
Like a rock, God is steady, sturdy, unmoving and unchanging.
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” – Psalm 18:2
The Almighty is a proven, trustworthy foundation—the bedrock and cornerstone.
“He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.” – Psalm 62:5-7
“Hear my cry, O God, … Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for You have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.” – Psalm 61:1-3
“Everyone then who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” – Matthew 7:24-25
“Rock” is but one of endless reasons to praise the King.
“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!” – Psalm 95:1
“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation” – 2 Samuel 22:47
The people of the wilderness witnessed it, and believers today get to as well.
“For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 10:1-4
May the hearts of God’s people always be softened and sturdied upon the Rock.
Abby
