THE ROCK

WORD OF WISDOM
ROCK ~ (Hebrews tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 22:3; Isaiah 17:10; Psalm 28:1; 31:2, 3; 89:26; 95:1); also in the New Testament (Matthew 16:18; Romans 9:33; 1 Corinthians 10:4). In Dan. 2:45 the Chaldaic form of the Hebrew word is translated "mountain." It ought to be translated "rock," as in Habakkuk 1:12 in the Revised Version. The "rock" from which the stone is cut there signifies the divine origin of Christ.

Source: Easton's Bible Dictionary


Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

“He is a Rock.” This is the first time God is called so in Scripture. The expression denotes that the Divine power, faithfulness, and love, as revealed in Christ and the gospel, form a foundation which cannot be changed or moved, on which we may build our hopes of happiness. And under His protection we may find refuge from all our enemies, and in all our troubles.

We must remember that nothing that He has promised has ever failed; so that if our experience has been painfully checkered by severe and protracted trials, notwithstanding the brightest promises, that result was traceable to our own undutiful and perverse conduct; not to any unfaithfulness on the part of God (Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning ), whose procedure was marked by justice and judgment, whether we have been exalted to prosperity or plunged into the depths of affliction.

Who and where is your rock? How many of us are like the people in Deu 32:18 Of the Rock [that] begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee., or Deu 32:37 And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted,. Do we really know who our God is? Have we forgotten all the wonderful things He has done for us? Or have we regulated Him to a place on a shelve, where in our every day business He is left and forgotten?

Let us all remember dear Peter, the mouth, who Jesus told in Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. No Peter didn't have Divine Power, nor do we, but he did have the other two attributes of faithfulness, and love, as do we. When the devil and all his imps come against us they shall not prevail because God has hidden us under the Rock of His mighty hand.

God's Blessings to each of you,
LJG/rECj