THE ROCK WON'T MOVE - Vertical Worship
1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its Name Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far The LORD has helped us.”
EBEN HAEZER
(pronounced eh'-ben hah-ay'-zer)
STONE OF HELP
Stones have life. They hear and stand as witnesses to God's salvation. Joshua 24:26-27 tells us this and we know it to be true. Stones have voices: they speak when God's people don't. Luke 19:40.
Stones were set up as memorials commemorating some great event which God had orchestrated:
- Joshua 4:7
- Genesis 28:18-19
- Genesis 35:14
Open tombs had large, heavy stones rolled across their thresholds. These stones required the strength of several men to be set in place. Only once in Scripture was a stone rolled away by the power of God: when Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave and walked out of it. The ROCK moved the rock. And showed us He truly is our ROCK of Salvation, our STONE of HELP.
For no greater Help have we ever needed than to be helped out of the darkness and into The LIGHT, out of our sins and into His GRACE. Christ Jesus is THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, The Chief Cornerstone. 2 Samuel 22:7; 1 Peter 2:6 . He is THE ROCK OF MY STRENGTH - Psalm 62:7.
Now, more than ever, I need Him to be my ROCK, my STONE of HELP. My Refuge in times of trouble. I am helpless without Him. And so are you. Now is the time to fall on THE ROCK before the rocks fall on you - Revelation 6:15-17. Don't be caught dead without JESUS.
