Just this past Saturday, a group of 14 people from our youth ministry here at Temple went on our annual Spring Detox Retreat. We were slated to go spend the day somewhere else, but we opted to drive to Illinois and visit the Garden of the Gods and Cave In Rock. It was great fun and one young man said something that stuck with me.
He said something like, "It is cool how we were able to have a bunch of crazy fun and meet God in the middle of all that."
As I was looking through the pictures I took of the trip, I noticed that one of my favorites was of all the kids inside the cave. Is it not a wonderful thing how safe and secure we are when we are in the Rock?
When we are hiding in God, we gave nothing to fear or to worry about. We are with Him and in Him and in that location, we can have crazy fun.
As the season our nation and even the rest of the world finds itself in grows darker and less sure, we who place our hope in Christ will be a light to those outside the Rock. Let us anchor our hearts in Him and then we will be a Beacon of Hope for the lost and afraid.
Jesus is a Rock in a weary land.
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the Rock.
Rock of ages, cleft for me.
Jesus is the Rock and He rolls my blues away.
Take me to the Rock that is higher than I.
Is it any wonder some of the best Church songs are about this very subject.
I found some more God this day and breathed Him in...it was glorious! Thanks for taking us on this trip, Dave!
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