Rock That Is Higher Than I

"When my heart is overwhelmed--lead me to the Rock that is higher than I!" Psalm 61:2
Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart--sinking like a vessel deluged by the storm!

Discoveries of inward corruption will do this--if the Lord permits the great deep of our depraved heart to become troubled, and cast up its mire and dirt.

Disappointments and heartbreaks will do this--when billow after billow rolls over us, and we are like a broken shell hurled to and fro by the raging surf!
Blessed be God, at such seasons we are not without an all-sufficient solace--our God is the harbor of weather-beaten souls, the hospice of forlorn pilgrims! His mercy is higher than our sins! His love is higher than we could imagine!
It is pitiful to see unsaved men putting their trust in something lower than themselves; but our confidence is fixed upon the exceeding high and glorious Lord.
A Rock He is--since He changes not. And He is a high Rock--because the tempests which overwhelm us--roll far beneath at His feet! He is not disturbed by them--but rules them at His will. If we get under the shelter of this lofty Rock--we may defy the hurricane! All is peaceful under the shelter of that towering cliff!
Alas! such is the confusion in which the troubled mind is often cast, that we need piloting to this divine shelter. Hence the prayer of the text, "When my heart is overwhelmed--lead me to the Rock that is higher than I! O Lord, our God, by Your Holy Spirit--teach us the way of faith, and lead us into Your rest. The wind blows us out to sea--and our puny hand cannot steer the helm! You, You alone can steer us over the wide ocean between yon sunken rocks--and safe into the fair haven. How dependent we are upon You! We need You to bring us to You! To be wisely directed and steered into safety and peace is Your gift, and Yours alone!"

- Charles Spurgeon