Halifax, Nova Scotia is a hilly city. Many times we were invited to visit our friends whose home was built at the very top of one of those hills. As we drove round and round up to the house, we could look down on the roofs and yards of the houses we had just passed. Finally, we parked behind our friends’ house where we had come to visit.
After dinner, we adults were still sitting at the table chatting while our boys, ages one and three, ran outdoors to play. Suddenly, Earl, my husband, shouted, “LOOK!”
There was our car rolling slowly past the dining room window! Earl was out of the house in a flash! Before he reached the car, it came to the very edge of the front yard and was just about to plunge down onto the roof of the house below. But something stopped it! The front wheels came to rest against a huge rock firmly set into the earth.
King David explains in Psalm 18:22The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. (Psalm 18:2) what the Lord was for him: “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.” And the Lord certainly was all those things to our boys that summer afternoon.
Earl took them out of the car. Christopher, who had put the gear shift in neutral, was old enough to see what could have happened if the rock had not stopped the car. He was white as a sheet and shaking all over. John, the one-year-old, was just enjoying the ride.
May we, like Christopher, realize where we are headed if we are still in our sins and trust in the Rock, Christ Jesus, to keep us from plunging into a lost eternity.
Are you resting on that solid Rock of safety?
ML-07/04/1993