My Rock!

("Solitude Sweetened" by James Meikle, 1730-1799) LISTEN to audio! Download audio

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"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my Savior, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the strength of my salvation, my stronghold!" (Psalm 18:2)

Do rocks defend me from blasts, from whatever quarter they blow? So does my Rock!

Is the blast from Hell? He has the keys of Hell and of death!

Is it from sin? He is my righteousness!

Is it from Satan? He has conquered principalities and powers!

Is it from afflictions? He is my sympathizing and loving High Priest!

Is it from losses? He is my exceeding great reward!

Is it from crosses? He makes all things work together for good to His people!

Is it from anguish? He is my joy!

Is it from darkness? He is my Sun!

Is it from doubts? He is my Counselor!

Is it from deadness? He is my life!

Is it from enemies? He is my shield!

Is it from temptation? He is my deliverer!

Is it from false friends? He will never leave me, nor forsake me!

Is it from solitude? He is everywhere present!

Is it from disease? He is my healer!

Is it from death? He is the resurrection and the life!

O glorious refuge! O sure defense! O everlasting fortress!
Here do I defy the worst that earth and Hell can do!

Henceforth will I live by faith, in the MAN who is . . .
  my hiding place from the wind,
  my shelter from the tempest,
  my stream of water in a dry place,
  my shadow of a great rock in a weary land-
until every blast has blown over, and not a threatening cloud appears in my sky-until my heaven is beautified with everlasting day, and every storm is swept from the air which I breathe!

"And a MAN shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land!" (Isaiah 32:2)

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Something to ponder:
"The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in . . .
  the types of the ceremonial law,
  the predictions of the prophets,
  the narratives of the gospels,
  the doctrines of the epistles, or
  the sublime vision of the Apocalypse,
this is the food of the soul, the manna from Heaven, the bread of life.
This is food indeed and drink indeed!" John Angell James