Solid Rock vs Sinking Sand

My husband is one of those people who only has to hear a song once or twice to be able to sing it again, from memory. Our daughter has picked up the same tendency.  I have a better memory for the tune than the words, but that is a different story.  

Regardless of the above fact, God has always spoken to me through song lyrics.  That isn't the only way He chooses to speak to me, but it is one way He uses quite regularly, for me.  This past weekend at church we sang two very old hymns of the church and each of them was a sermon in itself to me, which was good because I missed most of the actual sermon due to a fussy baby.  I will blog on those later.  Tonight I wanted to touch on one of the first hymns God used in my life.  

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

Refrain

When darkness seems to hide His face,
I rest on His unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

Refrain

His oath, His covenant, His blood,
Support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.

Refrain

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh may I then in Him be found.
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

Refrain

Read those words again carefully. Go over them slowly.  It is basic theology, He is our Rock.  If we lean on that, believe in that, trust in that, we will not be disappointed.  Our everything truly does lay with Him, not in what man sees or says.  But how often, we (I) forget that, how often I find myself believing other things, resting in other things or worse my self.  What happens then?  The refrain reminds us "On Christ the Solid Rock I stand"  because "All other ground is sinking sand" and to get the point across, that line is repeated, and if sung with the traditional tune slower and lower to really bring emphasis to the words "All other ground IS. SINKING. SAND."  (emphasis mine) 

Have you ever been caught up in quick sand, or seen someone caught up in it.  I have seen it in the movies and it doesn't look pretty.  In fact it looks like one of the ways I would least want to die, you see I have this intense dislike of feeling like I can't breathe, and when one sinks in quick sand, it doesn't appear you breathe very easily.  And lest you say, "But that is just the movies, it doesn't really happen like that"  You are probably right but the illustration is pretty powerful indeed.  And that is what really brings me around to the realization that I can not depend on what others say AT.ALL.  Because as the hymn writer puts it "ALL other ground IS sinking sand"  

Now someone (and you ladies know who you are) remind me of this next time I start getting moody because likely I have started to listen to and believe someone else, and usually that person is myself ;-)