"For they drank from the
spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ."
I Corinthians 10:4;
Long before "Like a Rock" was a
popular Bob Seeger song, and later the theme for a macho Chevy truck
commercial, it was a phrase used in the Bible to describe God. For example, Psalm 18:2 says: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my
deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge . . ." A rock means strength and security: "solid as a rock." But God could
use even this unbreakable solid object to provide the people with nourishment,
as we see in Psalm 81, when God promises to satisfy the people with "honey
from a rock. " And in Exodus 17 Moses strikes a rock in the wilderness and
water flows out to nourish the thirsty people. It is this story in Exodus that
the Apostle Paul is referring to here: "the rock was Christ," the one
who provides living water to all who thirst.How else might we think of Jesus
being "like a rock?" My Welsh forebears would often end their prayers
"in the strong name of Jesus Christ." Their faith knew that Jesus was
solid, unshakable, immovable, dependable, and strong.
- "Like a Rock"Richard L. Floyd
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