OUR DAILY BREAD : SOLID-ROCK FAITH

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MONDAY APRIL 6


SOLID-ROCK FAITH

READ:
Psalm 18:2
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The LORD is my
rock and my
fortress and my
deliverer.
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My wife and I both have grandmothers who have lived past 100. Talking with them and their friends, I detect a trend that seems almost universal in the reminiscences of older people: They recall difficult times with a touch of nostalgia. The elderly swap stories about World War 2 and the Great depression; they speak fondly of hardships such as blizzards, the childhood outhouse, and the time in college when they ate canned soup and stale bread 3 weeks in a row.

Paradoxically, difficult times may help nourish faith and strengthen personal bonds. Seeing this principle lived out, I can better understand one of the mysteries relating to God. Faith boils down to a question of trust. If I do stand on a solid rock of trust in God (PS. 18:2), the worst of circumstances will not destroy that relationship.

Solid-rock faith allows me to believe that despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign. Regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love. No pain lasts forever, and no evil triumphs in the end.

Solid-rock faith allows me to believe that despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign. Regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love. No pain lasts forever, and no evil triumphs in the end.

Solid-rock faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest moment in all history__His resurrection and triumph over death.

**Lord, You are the Rock, the object of my faith. My faith stands on You and
not on my shifting feelings, otherwise I would be sure to fall.____________
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Christ, the Rock, is our sure hope.

**********************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 18:1-3,46*******************
1 I will love You, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my
rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my
strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn
of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I will call upon the
LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my
enemies....

46 The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my
salvation be exalted.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Psalm 18 is a song of thanksgiving. The long
susperscription, taken from 2 Samuel 22:1, gives the circumstances
that led David to write this song of deliverance: "A Psalm of David
the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this
song on the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his
enemies and from the hand of Saul." David used seven metaphors
to describe the Lord: He is a rock, fortress, and deliverer. He is our
strength, shield, horn of salvation, and stronghold (vv. 2-3).