In the movie “Forrest Gump,” Forrest has a lifetime friendship with Jenny. In one scene, when both of them are grown and Jenny is just beginning to retreat from her lifestyle of sex and drugs, they are walking down a dirt road. Soon they come to the shack where Jenny lived as a little girl – the shack where she experienced abuse. As they come up to it her face contorts with hatred and anger. She reaches down, picks up a rock and flings it towards the shack. It chips off some of the already deteriorating paint. She picks up another rock and fires again, this time crashing through an already broken window. She picks up and hurls another, and another, and another – all with reckless abandon. Finally, she falls exhausted to the ground. Forrest gazes down at her and says, “I guess sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks.”

There was more to what Forrest said than what he probably knew. Surely she could have thrown stones all day and never destroyed the shack. That was obvious. But not so obvious was the deeper meaning of the scene – throwing stones all day would never abolish the abuse or demolish the effects of it. Throwing stones would never bring her torment, her agony, her misery, her anguish to the ground.

And we’ve been there – we’ve thrown the stones – at situations, at people, at memories. And it’s never relieved the agony, destroyed the misery, or lessened our anguish. It has never eased our torment.

So Jenny’s question is ours: When throwing stones won’t cut it, what do we do?

What we cannot do is keep throwing rocks. What we need to do is find the one ROCK! This one rock can knock down all of our agony, our misery, our anguish and our torment. We have to face the fact that we can’t handle life apart from our creator. Our sins and iniquities have separated us from our God. We need to trust in the one who made us and who knows where the stairway of our life is going, the one rock of ages, the one rock the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are almost 300 references to the word “rock” or “stone” in the King James Bible. Of those, 90% of them are referring to our God and our Savior. Here are a couple of my favorites. Psalm 18:2: “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.” Matthew 16:18: “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

This rock is the Lord Jesus. He is our rock, our solid foundation, our life, our strength and our protector. Those who attack our Rock will be broken into pieces, ground into powder. Don’t throw little rocks or pebbles at life. Know THE ROCK that defends, protects and saves us.

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