Willingly Fall on the Rock

Luke 20:18 – Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

o   The stone is unchangeable. The stone or, the rock, to the Jew, represents God; steady, faithful, ancient, time-tested, always the same, secure, weighty. The Psalmist said ‘He is my Rock’. He is my Touchstone. The rock is always the same and is no respecter of persons or circumstance. The rock represents the laws or principles of God. In Stephen Covey’s terms, the rock is the unmovable lighthouse versus the approaching large vessel. We can choose to willingly surrender and fall upon the rock, lay our lives on it, and yield to its strength and unchangeableness. We have this choice now, but it seems that it will be removed one day; we will no longer have a choice. If we fall on the rock we will be broken. When something is broken, we usually see it as needing to be fixed, but in God’s economy, broken is a good thing. There are things in our life that need to be broken – our stubbornness, our selfishness, our sinfulness, our maliciousness, and many other things such as; hatred, strife, ego, pride, envy, gossip etcetera; these things need to be broken. But our text does not say that sinful things need to be broken, it goes much deeper than that, it says that ‘whosoever’ falls upon the rock shall be broken. We are to be broken. The self needs to be broken. The fallen identity, the invented meaning of our existence needs to be broken. I must choose to daily fall on the rock or one day it – God, His laws, His principles, His unchangeableness, will fall on me. The weight and weightiness of that rock will crush the life out of me; it will grind me to powder. So the question is, Will I be broken by choice, or ground to powder by force? To fall on the rock is to let go and let God, to stop striving and release yourself, your life, and your security, take it all and place it on the rock; the only genuinely secure thing there is.