Every person born into the world is established upon the waters. This means, he or she is without a stable foundation.

God is not willing that any person be established apart from His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore He brought us into the world in an unstable condition that we might look for "the city that has foundations."

I think most Christians would agree that the Lord Jesus is our Rock and our only sure foundation. Apart from him a person has neither stability nor purpose in life.

However, there are two aspects that some believers may not have considered. First, it is not merely our belief in Christ that is the rock, the foundation. Second, we are being made in the image of Christ. We are being made a rock. God desires that each member of the royal priesthood be a rock on which people may depend during the tumultuous days that are ahead.

It is not merely our belief.

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash. (Matthew 7:24-27)

The great Christian error of our day is that it is faith alone in Christ that is the rock. The truth is, it is putting into practice the sayings of Christ that is the rock.

But we cannot put into practice the sayings of Christ except as Christ Himself is in and with us and gives us the wisdom and power to keep His sayings. Thus the righteousness, which is the rock, is not of our human efforts but of the Presence and Virtue of Christ Himself

We cannot ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place if we are unrighteous in behavior. We must develop the righteousness that comes as we patiently carry our cross and follow the Lord. In this manner the Lord Himself becomes our righteousness, our Rock. Not by identification or imputation but by an actual working out of His crucifixion and resurrection in our total personality.

We are being made a rock.

See, a king will reign in righteousness and rulers will rule with justice. Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert a thirsty land. (Isaiah 31:1,2)

First, we get our feet on solid ground by following the Lord and doing what He says, as He enables us. But Christ does not want to stop with just saving us. He desires us to become a rock so other people may find shelter throughout the age of moral horrors on the horizon.

In Mount Zion shall be deliverance and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. The Lord is calling out that remnant today.

But how do we ourselves become a rock, a shelter? It is all through the Lord Jesus, of course.

We become a rock in the same manner that all rocks are formed. We are treated to heat and pressure.

Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. (II Timothy 2:3)

Perhaps the Lord has decided to make you a rock. Perhaps right now you are going through dark places that you never thought you as an experienced Christian would ever suffer.

Take heart! You are in a tunnel, not a grave. There is light at the end, the light of the Lord. Endure hardship patiently as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. In the future you will be a shelter from the storm for other people, both believers and those who do not know the Lord.