18You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
There is something funny about the biology here. How can a rock give birth to anything? Of course you noticed the capital “R” when you read this verse, right? Rock represents stability, permanence, strength. The Lord is all those things and so much more. Without the Lord, Israel would have remained a small, insignificant group of people. Their very existence as a separate nation was due to God’s call on Abraham telling him to leave his family and start over in a new place. If it weren’t for the continual intervention of the Lord in the lives of the Israelites, they would have failed to materialize as a nation. And history would have taken its toll on them as well. They would have faded like all the other ancient people. But the Lord was with them.
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