![]() ![]() This nature reserve truly is a garden of incredible feats. Imagine colossal, vertical red rock slabs encompassed by a beautiful snow-capped (during winter) mountain backdrop. Just an hour south of Denver, resides one of Colorado’s most famous red rock locations known as the Garden of the Gods. But we didn’t think that there would be other dope red rock parks in the surrounding area. Yes we knew of the famous Red Rock Amphitheater near Denver. Well, then you could understand why we were completely caught off guard when we saw towering red rock formations right in the heart of Colorado. When you think red rocks, what states do you imagine? Arizona? Utah? Maybe even Nevada? Us too. You provide a broad path for my feet, so that my ankles do not give way.Roam The Epic Red Rocks of Colorado at Garden of the Gods You make your saving help my shield your help has made me great. He trains my hands for battle my arms can bend a bow of bronze. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer he causes me to stand on the heights. It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. “From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint Here are a few more STEPPING STONES reminding you our hope is built on nothing less… 28:16) (NASB) If rocks and stones become my home, He who believes in it will not be disturbed.’” ‘Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,Ī costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”Ī few chapters later, Isaiah then recorded God’s description of the coming Messiah: “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, Isaiah was inspired to call God a rock many times, and it’s from this verse below that we get both a description of perfect peace and the translated expression, “Rock of Ages.” My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, In many other places in Scripture, God himself is described as the rock. Here David used the rock to symbolize the higher place God set him where his perspective was renewed and his ability to stand strengthened. But the Lord didn’t just turn, hear, and lift. I love that he testifies it was the LORD who lifted him out. That slimy pit, mud, and mire in the opening verse sound just like it. ![]() From sinking sand to the Rock of Agesĭavid must have run into sinking sand. Here’s the deal about quicksand: the more you struggle, the faster you sink.Īnd unless you have some ninja survival training, you’re going to need someone else to pull you out. Gods of sand and rocks windows#My efforts to control what I let in and remove the grimy news and inputs were like washing windows in the middle of a dust storm. It was a valiant effort (if I don’t say so myself ~ wink), but it wasn’t enough. I was intent on “cleaning house” and washing the windows of my eyes. They were included in another post, and once I hit publish, the scrubbing commenced. If the eyes need Windex, the soul likely needs Clorox. The news, social feeds, and conversations all drop into a blender … that you don’t have the top for. Thus, it’s a full-time job to guard our heart and mind and eyes these days. The list of things that are spinning out of control seems limitless. The undertones of our current culture are like an undertow that tugs and tears and threatens to take us down. He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.” He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire “I waited patiently for the Lord he turned to me and heard my cry. ![]()
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