Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Psalm 95:1 Oh come, Let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock Of our Salvation!
THE ROCK OF OUR SAFETY
Our society year by year has become increasingly safety conscious. When I learned to ride a bike had I worn a helmet, pads and flak jacket I would have been greatly embarrassed to be seen by anyone. Today a parent who allows a child not to wear such things may be considered an unloving parent. Just this past week I saw a report that it is considered unsafe for young children to play dodge ball, and that the throwing of a ball or an object at a child is unsafe. There goes the T-ball leagues, the peewee football leagues, maybe even the peewee hockey programs. Safety is the concern and our society is going to great lengths to see to it that every danger to life and limb is removed and all are at least physically safe.
This same society and many parents and individuals who clamor for child safe items and improvements in safety devices for all, fails to look for and provide for the safety of souls. Thanks be to our Lord God who has provided for us such safety; the Rock of our safety, or as most translations state it,
The Rock of our salvation.
The Lord has given to us the only safe haven we have from sin, death, temptation, and the power of the devil, the world and of our flesh in the solid Rock of our Lord Jesus upon which we build our house called life. He has removed our guilt forever. "There is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). It is solid, for Jesus lives eternally to save. 