ROCK OF AGES!
"O
my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock."
-Song
of Solomon 2:14 [KJV]
JESUS
is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self.
"Thou art my hiding-place"
said David of old. This was shewn to Moses, in figure, when the Lord
put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully
versified, to paint the longing desires of his soul:
"Rock
of Ages, cleft for me,
Let
me hide myself in Thee!"
It
is on this "Rock of Ages" that God has built His
Church. As a rock, He is deep as well as high—so deep as to have
under-bottomed the depths of the fall, so high as to be God's fellow,
seated at His right hand. As a rock, too, He is broad as well as
long—broad enough to bear millions of living stones built on Him,
and long enough to reach from eternity to eternity. The Apostle,
therefore, prays that the Church at Ephesus may comprehend with all
saints, "what is the breadth
and length, and depth and height, and know the love of Christ which
passeth knowledge."
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802–1869 A.D.)
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