For who is God except the Lord? Who but our God is a solid rock? Ps 18:31 (NLT)

Rock Solid – Part 1

“Who but our God is a solid rock?”

David wasn’t looking for a show of hands here; he wasn’t looking for answers. He was being rhetorical, claiming that no matter how far and wide you search, you’ll never find anyone like God.

David had been through a lot. Some of it was his own doing, and other things because, well, life happens. Rejection, betrayal, conflict, love, lust, death, division, leadership, victory, murder, family, repentance, hope, peace, challenge – God proved constant and consistent through it all. A rock on which he could stand and draw strength from.

Immovable and unshakable. Heavy with faithfulness and love.

A stone, or a rock, is an incorruptible substance. It doesn’t take on any contamination. It’s funny that we liken God to a substance that doesn’t seem to hold any life. God is a rock. But with God, spirit and matter are together. You cannot separate them. God is in all things and through all things. They are one. The rock exists because of God and in God. When we say that God is bedrock, we’re not just using it as metaphor for his character. We are declaring that spirit and matter are one. As God is in the rock, so is he. And as the rock is in God, so are we. Christ, the living cornerstone upon whom we build our lives. He makes my heart strong, enabling me to carry the weight of life without getting squashed or beaten down by it’s seasons of heaviness. And this foundation that he is, is not flimsy or light – it won’t fly away in the wind, or be tossed too and fro on stormy seas. He is weighty and tried and tested and true.

Permanent. Stable. Secure.

A living rock.

Speaking of the Exodus and the Israelites journey through the wilderness, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:3-4

“All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.”

Not a still, silent or austere stone that was rigid and stubborn, or a piece of the earth under the power of God. But Jesus WAS the rock that traveled and journeyed with His people… a rock that was filled with living water and spilled strength into all that gathered around it.

2 Samuel 22:2-4 “God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God—the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders safe in the granite hideout; My mountaintop refuge, he saves me from ruthless men. I sing to God the Praise-Lofty and find myself safe and saved.”

Go to Part 2 – Feet Secure »

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