SOLID ROCK
funerals are good at drawing out complex emotions. since my family is faced with three of them this saturday, i’ve been exploring the ideas of death and grieving. and i realize that death really is such a mystery.
tonight, i was at a practice for one of the services that i’ve been asked to sing at, and we were working on the hymn The Solid Rock (also known as My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less) and i found that the words were really appropriate to me this weekend. the funeral will be sandwiched between a mission team reunion and a birthday get-together. so i’m basically setting myself up for an emotional roller-coaster ride. but supporting it all is my belief in Christ – the Solid Rock. so whether i laugh or cry, i know i am secure.
My hope is built on nothing less,
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ Name.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
~Edward Mote and William Bradbury~
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
~Psalm 62:1-3~