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199. Dance on your Rock

 

 

This morning I took time to spend with the Lord. It was brief before worship and prayer, but it was humbling, reassuring and comforting. The Lord showed me raging rapids. The type of river that you wouldn’t dare cross. 
 
I saw myself jumping from the shore onto the first rock. My balance was slipping, I was unsure of my foothold. Like a baby giraffe my legs were unsteady. I wasn’t sure how I’d get to the other side. May times in life we see the challenges, we see the other side, but we have no idea how to get there. We see the rapids, the rushing waves and we freeze in fear.
 
I felt so afraid. I couldn’t get to the next rock without jumping. It looked slippery, it looked too far away and it looked so small compared to the rising waters around it. I hear the Lord say “Jump” so I jumped.
Once again my foothold nearly slipped, my balance was shaky and I almost fell in. “Jump Ash!” I hesitated less this time around, I didn’t take as much of a pause running through my thoughts, or trying to land on my own understanding. I heard His voice and I jumped. My feet landed stronger this time. My legs less shaky, my foothold stronger. “Keep going”. 
 
I saw myself jumping from rock to rock, gaining confidence with each leap. Growing in the comfort of the steadiness of the rock. Ignoring the waves. The Lord showed me joyfully dancing and leaping over these rapids landing strongly on the rocks. “Trust the rock, not the Leap, Ash”.
 
Land on the rocks, steady your feet, leap in faith but trust the ROCK, not your balance.
 
It’s time to jump! Not to look at the waves, not to worry about falling in, not to trust in yourself and your own efforts. 
 
Trust, rest and dance on your rock!
 
Psalms 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
 
2 Samuel 22:32 - For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
 
1 Samuel 2:2 - There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
 
1 Corinthians 10:4 - And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
 
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
 
1 John 4:18 - There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
 

 

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