“For there is none besides You”: has Christ so filled up the range of your soul’s vision that all other persons and things are lost to you? See Colossians 3:11 in connection with this: “Christ is all.”

It is very beautiful also to see how the Spirit of God brings God in as the Rock. You get the expression in Genesis, and very frequently in Deuteronomy. God recognized very early in man’s history that man needed something solid to rest upon. Everything is going to give way some day, and you want to be standing on the Rock at that time. Are you on the Rock? Are you there? Can you say, because you know it, “There is no rock like our Rock, neither any rock like our God”?

“But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock” (Lk. 6:46–48). Have you ever answered in the obedience of faith what He tells you to do? The first thing He tells you to do is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is where you are to begin as a sinner.

In Isaiah, this Rock is called the Rock of Ages, or the Rock of Eternity. That is where you want to build and be, for everything is going to pieces and you want to be on that which abides. “Nor is there any rock like our God.” Is it not wonderful that Hannah learned this? She was near the Lord and got into some of the secrets. The world has its rocks, but they usually splinter to pieces.