One of my favorite places is Joshua Tree National Park. Fortunately I live fairly close and can visit often. I like it because it is so unusual looking. It is like no other place I have seen and definitely not at all like the landscape I grew up in. Between the Joshua trees, that look like they came straight from a Dr. Seuss book, to the fascinating round boulders in bewildering formations, I always feel like I am visiting another planet.
Those alien rock formations exist because millions of years ago magma bubbled up from fault lines below and cooled, creating very hard rock pockets deep in the ground. That hard rock was very resistant to erosion. When wind and water washed all the dirt, sediment, and other rocks away, all it did to the hard gneiss and granite was wear away the edges a little, making them rounded.
God is a rock even harder than those magma-formed boulders. Wind and water has no effect. He never changes. His corners don’t wear away. He never changes shape and is never dislodged from His place. Millennia pass, and He is exactly the same — my loving and holy God.
If I stand on God, I can be sure I will be safe and secure, exactly where I was before the storm and the flood and the earthquake came. Forever. And ever.
Dear God,
Thank you for your permanence and consistency. It’s a hard thing to understand because everything in your creation seems to change. Thank you for the example of granite rock formations and mountains. Thank you also for assuring me that you are even more solid than the hardest rock on earth. Teach me how to stand on you with every decision I make today.
CamDevo 