The Rock Who Won't Budge

(This post follows continuity with yesterday's post, "The One Who Leads Me".)

It’s impossible to believe that the “Isla del Encanto” that has recognized Puerto Rico to the evermore (yeah, it’s my favorite word:)) is losing its sheen day after day. It’s sad that the society is crumbling right before my eyes, but it has to happen, no matter how reluctant I am to the reality. Meanwhile, I’ve realized that going back to school has become a bittersweet activity. (It’s compulsory to go to school until 16 years old or so.) Now that the classes have commenced, waking up to the notion that I’ll leave school soon –and sooner, in fact- has become a drag for me. When is the time? God only knows.

I’m also having a little crisis of my own: I don’t know who to leave in charge of the confra! (For those newcomers, the confra is a worship/Bible session in schools in Puerto Rico. They are rarely held today.) The person I wanted to pick for the confra hasn’t come to school yet, and I’m getting desperate! Please, put that in prayer with me, it’s EXCRUCIATING! And my prayer life has had a bit of a problem with the adjustments. Since my sister is not going to the university as planned, she’s staying up late, and I try to go to bed by midnight. (I don’t know: why night is the best time to pray?) Also, I don’t know what I’m going to do with my MySpace blog, which I have to do some updates, and keep this one in check. This, mixed in with the knowledge that the apartment Papi got has been refurbished, it’s no time at all that we can leave. This is getting crazy!

Oy! What can I do!?

From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead
me to the rock that is higher than I. (Psalms 61:2)

In this side of the world, sin has become an easy task to do, even more than breathing in itself. (But that’s not the topic!) So does burdening oneself, throwing God away and leaving one vulnerable to the devil’s attacks and one’s attempts at destroying life. When David was calling to God, he was calling to stay at the rock and not drift himself to death. Now, we lead to the cross that God put us up to remember His mercies and glories. God won’t drift me or my family away in this crazy time, so what more can I ask for? What can I say when Jesus Christ died for my inability to pay, even with the ultimate lamb? The One that will keep us in His hands, pick the leaders before He made creation, let schools start at a later time, and makes us leave from the country I was born and raised in?

That’s the one I will lead me to: Jesus, the rock that won’t budge.
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Here’s the chorus of “Lead Me to the Cross”, from Hillsong United, which prompted me to do this devotional.

Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross