Let’s imagine a 120 years old grandpa, with white beard, white eye brow, all white. Already imagine it? Okay, now imagine his favorite song. “Hmmm, I’m feeling a bit Beatles here.” “Ah too modern. At the old times, they listened to Frank Sinatra.” “Nah, you guys got it all wrong, the old man loves ‘rock’ music!”
“David, seriously, is that a wrong title? Or you’re just making another unfunny joke of yours?” you may ask me. “None of them”, I 
Well, let me tell you the story.
It was Moses’ last days in this earth, and the LORD inspired him a song, probably the last song he sang in his entire life. The “funny, or should I say unique?” thing about the song is that it is a ROCK song. And he sang it in front of the whole assembly of Israel! Cool huh?! Maybe you’re now imagining the stage, color spotlight, electric guitar, people dancing crazy, hahahaha.
The title of the chapter is “The Song of Moses” (it was written in Deuteronomy 32). And yes, Moses did sing. He sang a rock song. Actually, I should capitalize the word R-ock, because he was singing about his Rock, the Almighty God Himself. Here are some of the lyrics:
“He is the Rock...” (v4)
“You deserted the Rock, who fathered you...” (v18)
“...unless the Rock had sold them...” (v30)
“For their rock is not like our Rock...” (v31)
“Now where are their gods, the rock they take refuge in,...” (v36)
The song was filled with “Rock”. But why? What inspired Moses to sing this “Rock” music?
Beloved, Moses failures taught him this song.
It was one of the darkest days in Moses’ life. As usual, he had to deal with complains. This time it was about drinking water. “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock d
Instead of saying HE (GOD) will bring the water out of the rock, Moses said WE will bring it out. How many times we said “I” instead of “HE”? How many times we trust in our strength, instead of relying in His? Our failures are like Moses’; they are caused by self-reliance. The Rock stands for one and one only: HIM!
Twice did Moses hit the rock. Once is not enough for him, so he added the second strike.
Have we ever felt that our “Rock’s” sacrifice on the cross is not enough? Have we ever felt that we need to add something to His sacrifice? Have we ever fallen into a serious sin and felt that He won’t forgive us anymore? Or fought and fought against a sin and always failed, then we thought He couldn’t set us free? We tried to run from Him even though He is our only hope? Have we ever felt so burdened and tired with our lives, and we decided to run towards sin and temporary pleasures offered by the world?
Moses didn’t reach the Promised Land because of his mistake. But he learned something about his God. He learned that God is the only Rock! God is the only hope! God is the only strength! No one besides God!
For the bible tells us: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD!” “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.”
Burdened? Tired of all your problems? Do not come to the world and his temporary pleasures of sin. It will never satisfy you. For Jesus, our Rock, gave us a promise: “COME TO ME, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
The music is indeed a rock music, not because of its genre, but because of it’s soul, a resting soul for those who “come to the Rock”.
LET’S COME TO OUR ROCK! and we shall find rest. Amen.
the brand of a pen is not written in the bibliography, it’s the author’s name
Glory to God
pictures taken from: http://lifeisreallybeautiful.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/moses_water_rock_strike.jpg and http://www.mae-shi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/rock-music.jpg
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