June 25, 2010 My Rock, My Redeemer

O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

Good Friday Morning. my dear brothers and sisters. It is a beautiful morning here at the home of Carry The Light Ministries... Just beautiful. God watered our lawn and garden again yesterday and added water to our well. Praise God for supplying one of our great needs, water.
Praise report in from Rob Campbell today on a good flea market last weekend, The church took in 5 grand toward their mortgage. Prayers today for all those who work in the fields of harvest for our Lord Jesus. Folks, the crop in the fields is in need of harvest and if we do not go out and work for our Lord getting this job done, the crop will rot. Think about this, who came and helped to harvest you? Once you are in the hands of God you have a job to do for Him. You say you don't like talking to people about being saved? Wow, I am glad someone talked to me about it. Pray, warrior,s for the workers and then become one yourself... and this is not just a request from this old man but an order from Jesus. Listen to these words of Jesus.

Mark 16:15 - He (Jesus) said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation." (NIV)

My Rock, My Redeemer: Psalm 19:16 - May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. (NIV)

For many years I would hear that passage prayed right before the message by Pastor Dr. Richard Denison, and yes, this verse tells us that Jesus is our Rock, our Redeemer and indeed it can be used as a prayer. When we think of Rocks, like rocks we see used for road work or rocks in your garden, etc., we know they come in all sizes, and in fact they are blasted out of the ground and put in big machines and made to size. If you make them real small you would call them stones or at one time we called them "gonnies". Boulders would be real big rocks. When we talk about our Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer I find that He, our Lord God comes in all sizes.

Let me just explain my thinking on that one. Let's start first with Jesus, who is our Rock and our Redeemer as being in the small size. We first saw Him or heard of Him while He was in the womb of His mother Mary. Then who can forget about the little Christ Child in the manger and yet He at that time was The Rock and the Redeemer and we remember how people came to the manger to see who He was. Then we get a look at Him again as a teenager not big in size but still a mighty Rock. As He grew and grew and became larger in size as humans grow He was still that rock. And now let me look at it another way.

Jesus loved and loves the little children and Has a way of making His size to fit them, and maybe you don't follow me on that one, but if you are big person like I am and I really wanted to talk to children I would sit down and bring them near to me. This brings your size down more to the child's size. And our Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer, is also the Rock and Redeemer of small children and we must remember that He also knows all of them even before they were in the womb. People who abort children or who murder them by aborting them should really remember that.

But God, our Lord Jesus, who is my Rock and my Redeemer, is just the size to handle me, but he is also the size to handle you also. So He can carry you and me and also all others who come to Him. In other words, our Rock can carry the small child and their problem or take on the weight of the world, which He did, by the way, when on the cross. We know our Rock and our Redeemer was large enough to cry, and large enough that once He forgives us to not hold it against us. And that is a big one that people should learn about each other. Once you forgive someone, don't cast it up to them again.

And today, today I want to wrap this series up by just saying I really appreciate that He is my Rock and my Redeemer, for now that I have come to Him, have built my life on the solid Rock, I am happy to say He indeed has redeemed me... How about You?

Dear Father in Heaven... Thanks for being my Rock and my Redeemer and may the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, be I singing it, preaching it or writing it on this line. Help us all to work Your fields of Harvest as ordered. Thanks, Jesus. Amen.

Go forth now and share those blessings that our Rock and Redeemer has given us. Love ya, Pastor Dan.