Have you ever felt like you were sinking into an emotional or spiritual quagmire? I have. Have you felt like your world was falling apart all around you? I have. What did you do to try to fix it? Did it work? I did. Some of my first attempts did not succeed. I did find a way out of those feelings. I found a rock to stand upon. Let us look at my journey so you too can find the Rock to stand upon.
As I walked through life with Laura’s illness and ultimate suicide. I was at times I was an emotional and spiritual wreck. I felt like I was sinking further and further into a hole that was continually getting deeper. I tried to climb out of the hole but I had nothing firm to use to do it. Then I found that The Bible has an answer. Psalms 62:5-7 declares that I have something firm to climb out of my hole of despair,
“For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
for my hope is from him.
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.” (ESV)
Not only did I find that God was my Rock but He was my salvation and my fortress. In Him could I trust in everything. Along with that God my Rock became my hope. It is knowing that I now have a solid place to step when I am in a hole that brings me true hope. I now know that there is no hole big enough that my Rock will not get me out.
As I continued to search for answers it seemed clear to me that I needed to seek for my Rock. David prayed in Psalms 61:1-3,
“Hear my cry, O God,
listen to my prayer;
from the end of the earth I call to you
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I,
for you have been my refuge,
a strong tower against the enemy.” (ESV)
In seeking for my Rock, I found that He was always ready willing and able to become my Rock and give me the stability I needed to climb out of the holes I continually fell into. It gave me hope that this too will come to an end.
I have found that my life is more stable when I understand that God is my Rock. He is my foundation. This happens when my actions are more like Christ and less like my natural sinful nature. It has become clear to me that Christ is my solid Rock. It is there that I am at my best. As the old hymn “On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand” says “On Christ the solid rock I stand all other ground is sinking sand.”
So, join me in standing on the Rock who is the only God. Ask God to give you stability as you stand on Him. When we ask He gives it to us and that gives us hope. God is the only One who can give us true stability which leads to hope. One day, He will make all things right, and when you search to receive hope for yourself, then you will also give hope to others by living in God’s wisdom. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross satisfied the penalty for my sins and yours as well. It satisfied all my sins from the past, in the present and in the future. My penalty and yours was satisfied on the cross by the death of Jesus, God’s greatest act of love and wrath, who became sin for me and you. It was also God’s greatest act of faithfulness because “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8 (ESV) Because wisdom shows us, we need to believe in Jesus. I hope that you join me in choosing Jesus.
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