Joshua 1:1-18; Hosea 8:1-9:17; Luke 19:29-48
When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psalm 61:2
There is a famous beauty spot (a gorge) in the Mendip Hills at Burrington Combe in England. In 1763, a local church minister was caught in a storm while passing through the gorge and took shelter in a large fissure in a rock. Today a plaque is mounted on that rock and some maps show the name it has been given—“The Rock of Ages”. The minister was Augustus Toplady and he wrote the hymn “Rock of Ages cleft for me”. The rock tells of stability and durability;
hiding in it tells us of safety and security. That is what the believer experiences in trusting in God and in His Word. —Brian Powlesland
The Lord’s our rock, in Him we hide: a shelter in the time of storm!
Secure whatever ill betide: a shelter in the time of storm! —V. Charlesworth