Just Below The Surface

At just the right moment, when the sun is saying goodbye, just before night arrives, the mountains speak. You can hear them only if you stop what you’re doing and pay attention. They don’t speak for a long time, just briefly. But their message is powerful.

On this particular day, long shadows and dwindling light encouraged this small section of the Catalinas to demonstrate the importance of foundations in life. It looks like a cross-section procedure in the high school lab. Slice off a piece of the mountain and what do you see? What lies below the surface? And the revealed answer is Solid Rock. Scrape away the layers of soil and you find magnificent strength.

The earth declares the glory of God, and one element of that declaration is foundational strength. When all else fails, the rock holds. When things are just fine, the rock supports. When exposed, even for moment as the sun sets, the rock is beautiful. Soil comes and goes according to the wishes of the wind, but The Rock is immovable. So it is with the promises and the presence of God’s Spirit. Beneath the surface of joys and sorrows, successes and failures lies Rock, the Rock of Ages.

And when The Rock glows in the setting sun, it is well with my soul. May it be so with you. Amen