“THE ROCK!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 519

March 23, 2021///

We can have various plastic surgeries on different parts of our bodies.  We can exercise and lose weight to get fit. We can change hair color and clothes styles.

We can change locations, jobs, cars and friends and multitudes of other things in our lives. 

BUT what do you do when something hits you or your family that is totally out of your control? An illness or disease, a disaster or tragedy of small or gigantic proportions?

It is out of your control. You cannot change it! You do not even know how you can handle it! It knocks the breath out of you and buckles your knees!

“You go to the Rock!”

There is an old hymn that says:  Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee!

Psalm 61:2 (KJV)   From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psalm 94:22 (KJV)
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

When no words anyone can speak can help. When your heart feels as if it is torn into. When the sorrow is to deep for tears or the tears flow like a cascading waterfall, you can go to the only one who can help. The only one who has the power to pour the oil of healing into the depths of your spirit. 

You run to the Rock Christ Jesus and you cling to His Love and Comfort.  When you cannot see ahead, He will carry you and never leave you!

Psalm 62:6-8 (KJV)
⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
⁷ In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
⁸ Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

If you are walking close to the Father when the situation or tragedy hits, it will be easier to run to the Rock because you know in whom you believe and trust!

 Psalm 18:2 (KJV)
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

But may I tell you that even if you have strayed away from the Father or have never received His Love poured out through Jesus Christ, His deep desire is that you run swiftly to Him and let Him comfort and be your Rock, the solid foundation beneath your feet! He wants you to remember and return and let Him help, just as the Israelites did!

Psalm 78:35 (KJV)
 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

When you look at the sky and wonder why! When you just want to crumble to the floor and never move!  When the earth shakes and you cannot even form words, RUN TO THE ROCK.

Matthew 7:24-25 (KJV)
²⁴ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
²⁵ And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

The enemy of you soul wants you to run from the Fathers Love and Comfort rather than to it.  But the enemy of your soul is bent on destruction. 

The Father waits with open arms to wrap you in His Love and Care and give you strength and wisdom.

Psalm 40:2 (KJV)
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

If you are going through unspeakable sorrows, Run to the Rock.  If you are in a good place right now, establish your foundation on the Rock Christ Jesus so that your foundation will be sure when storms assail you!

1 Corinthians 3:11 (KJV)
 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Trust in and run to the Rock Christ Jesus!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come to you thanking you for the foundation of Love that we can build our life on.  Thank you that you will hold us close and keep us in you care in good and bad times.  You are our Rock, our Foundation that will never crumble or fail.  I worship you Lord of the universe because you can hold us together when our world shakes and trembles.  Bless today those who are facing the most difficult days imaginable.  Bless those who are in a good place today as they walk in the sunshine. Fill each of us with the knowledge that, sunshine or rain and storms, you are always the same.  May we all RUN TO THE ROCK!  Amen

Love, MeMaw