GOD IS OUR ROCK
God’s Way of Agape is the only way that leads to life, but are you wiling to walk it?
* “For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it.” Matthew 7:14
” He opened the rock, and water gushed out; like a river it flowed in the desert.” Psalm 105:41
That’s a picture of God’s provision for His people, Israel. In the forty years of their wandering through the wilderness, a dry and barren land where there were no pools, no rivers, no streams, where water was almost non-existent.
* God provided water for them in abundance.
* God provided it in a most unlikely way. He provided it out of a rock.
*God Himself was the rock and out of Himself there came His provision for His people in abundance.
It was important that Israel knew how to approach the rock.
*At one time Moses was commanded to strike it. At another time he was commanded to speak to it, and when he approached the rock in faith and obedience, out of that seemingly hard and unyielding rock there came an abundance of water that flowed like a river in the desert.
It’s often so in our lives, where in a time of barrenness when provision seems lacking, but God is there. He’s there in the form of a rock. He’s there in a form of something that seems hard and unyielding, something that we could complain about.
But when we recognize God in it and approach Him in faith and obedience, then the rock becomes the source of our provision.
All the benefits bestowed on Israel as a nation, were shadows of spiritual blessings with which we are blessed in Christ Jesus.
Having redeemed us with His blood, restored our souls to holiness, and set us at liberty from Satan’s bondage. Jesus guides and guards us all the way. He satisfies our souls with the bread of heaven, and the water of life from the Rock of salvation, and will bring us safely to heaven.
* Jesus redeems his servants from all iniquity, and purifies them unto himself, to be a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” – Colossians 3:23-24
We are all in missions. Some are called to foreign lands. Some are called to the jungles of the workplace. Wherever you are called, serve the Lord in that place. Let Him demonstrate His power through your life so that others might experience JESUS through you today and see your vocation as worship to His glory.
Matthew 25:23 “His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'”
*Success is not what you have but what you do with what you have.
*Do it with God’s way, not the way of the world.
*There is a Giver to every Christian out there. The gifts are spiritual gifts because the Giver is the Holy Spirit.
It’s not a reward or a purchased item. The gift is for the receiver to use in a ministry to others.
Thank You Jesus for Giving each one of us gifts to be used for Your Glory and our Joy. Help each of us approach our rock in faith and obedience, and then out of that seemingly hard and unyielding rock there will come an abundance of water which flows like a river in the desert. Thank You for being My rock of salvation. Amen