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Today we see Jesus as the Rock.

From the beginning, God has been the one who brings life out of desolate places. In creation, the earth was formless, empty, and chaotic. But God brought order where there was wilderness and streams where there was only chaos. From the start, God has been the one who turns barrenness into life.

That pattern continues through Israel’s story. When God rescued his people from Egypt, they carried with them Pharaoh’s hard-heartedness, his stony heart. Though they had seen God’s power in the plagues and the Red Sea, they doubted whether he could provide in the desert. Hungry and thirsty, they complained and tested God: “Is the Lord among us or not?” (Exodus 17:7).

In response, God showed his people that not only can he provide, but he can also bring life out of the hardest and most impossible places. He told Moses to strike the rock at Horeb, and from that stone heart came living water. God proved that even when his people are hard-hearted, he is able to bring forth life. The psalms and prophets remembered this moment as a picture of God’s power: the one who makes rivers flow in the desert and springs well up in wastelands (Psalms 78:15–16; Isaiah 41:18).

Paul tells us this rock pointed to Christ (1 Corinthians 10:4). Jesus is the Rock in the wilderness—the one who brings living water into our barren hearts. By his Spirit, he fulfills the promise of Ezekiel: to take our hearts of stone and make them hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26). The Rock was struck for us at the cross, and now water flows—God’s Spirit poured out to bring life where there was death.

This is good news. Apart from Jesus, we live in desolation—our hearts hardened, our lives barren, our world filled with injustice and brokenness. But when Jesus enters, water flows. He makes hard hearts alive with his Spirit. He turns dry places into gardens. And through his people, he brings streams of living water into a thirsty world.

And one day, this promise will cover creation itself. The whole world—scarred by sin and death—will be remade as rivers of life flow from God’s throne (Revelation 22:1). What began in creation, and was revealed in the wilderness Rock, will end with the whole earth springing with life.