For who is God except the Lord? Who but our God is a solid rock? Ps 18:31 (NLT)
David wrote this Psalm reflecting on the faithfulness and providence of God.
“Who but God is our solid rock?” is not a question David was asking. He was being rhetorical, claiming that no matter how far and wide you search, you’ll never find anyone like God. Through everything David had been through – betrayals, conflict, sin, repentance, hope, peace, challenge – God proved constant and consistent. A rock on which he could stand and draw strength from.
Immovable, unshakable, heavy with faithfulness and love.
I recently bought a watercolour print of a human heart that has mountains built on top of it, and it reminds me of this scripture. God, my rock. Christ, the living cornerstone upon whom my life is built. He makes my heart strong, enabling me to lift the weight of life and not get 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.
Unlike other stone idols in the days of David, who were silent and lifeless, God is the living rock.
Speaking of the Exodus and the Israelites journey through the wilderness, Paul writes in 1 Cor 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 is filled with living water and spills strength into all that gather around.
2 Sam 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.”
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