Everlasting Rock

The mountains have given way today (Isa. 54:10)

Physically.

Friends’ suffering continues.

Frustrated plans.

Weather.

One thing after another.

“So trust in the Eternal One forever, for He is like a great Rock—strong, stable, trustworthy, and lasting.” (Isaiah 26:4, The Voice)

“Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:” (Isaiah 26:4, KJV)

“Trust in the Lord forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.” (Isaiah 26:4, ESV)

Everlasting Rock.

Strong. Lord, in our weakness you are physical strength. In spiritual weakness, you renew the inner man. You exchange your strength, the strength of the One who caused the mountains to surface, for our limited and weak little strength (Isa. 40:31). All of his strength! Lord, I look to you.

Stable. Solid. Lord, when the mountains give way, your love and your covenant with us is not shaken (Isa. 54:10). When life trembles, when body gives out, when emotions are swayed, you are there. Solid. Stable. More real than the couch I sit on. Stable. Lord, I look to you.

Trustworthy. Always there. Like a rock, you are worthy of leaning our whole weight, our whole life, our whole being, our whole future, our whole heart, all of our emotions, our whole eternity on. Worthy, worthy. Lord, I look to you!

Lasting. Unchanging. Never throwing me a curveball. Nothing unexpected for you. The next five minutes which look awfully long, the next month, the next year, Lord, are yours. You are there. You will be the same in your strength and solid and trustworthiness. The waves of today cannot sink you. And us in you, we cannot be sunk either. Lord, I look to you!

Faithful. Trustworthiness made personal. You give yourself to us. You seal your promises to us by the blood of your own Son. You have sealed us to your heart in a covenant. You are righteous toward us in all your ways, always doing right by us. Lord, I look to you!

Everlasting.

Rock.

Instead of using your awesome eternality, power, strength to crush us, you are for us.

Instead, my God, my God! you crushed your son.

“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities… Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief…” (Isaiah 53:4, 10, ESV).

Lord, we trust. Just as you are forever, we trust forever. Forever! Lord, we can spend eternity trusting you! And so these light and momentary struggles, they take their place. They, placed before the Everlasting Rock. So Lord, in you, in your love, sealed with the Spirit and the blood, the heaviness of today does not crush me. Your strength. Your everlastingness. Your power. Your hope. Your faithfulness. You.