Set Us Like Stone
Set me like flint. Make my face like stone. Make me hard so I will never waver in faithfulness. You are a Rock that casts its shadow over a weary land, so those parched and sun-beaten can find refuge in your shade. Jesus, you are the corner stone of all our hopes and ambitions, you are the key stone of the community of the saints.
But are you so hard and unyielding as stone? No, you are gentle and warm in your nurture. You Fatherly embrace is firm, but comforting. But you are a Rock in terms of faithfulness. You are immovable according to your promises.
Jesus, teach us such faithfulness. We flail about, flopping here and there, bouncing from method to method, hope to hope, savior to savior, relationship to relationship. The only thing consistent about us is inconsistentcy. In regards to faithfulness, set us like stone. In determination to be obedient, make us hard as flint. In our conviction that strong, aggressive, radical love changes all things, plant us in concrete.
But are you so hard and unyielding as stone? No, you are gentle and warm in your nurture. You Fatherly embrace is firm, but comforting. But you are a Rock in terms of faithfulness. You are immovable according to your promises.
Jesus, teach us such faithfulness. We flail about, flopping here and there, bouncing from method to method, hope to hope, savior to savior, relationship to relationship. The only thing consistent about us is inconsistentcy. In regards to faithfulness, set us like stone. In determination to be obedient, make us hard as flint. In our conviction that strong, aggressive, radical love changes all things, plant us in concrete.
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