Porous

Porous.

The rock that pours. The holy rock

In and out, it flows. The advance and the withdrawal.

The peaks and troughs, the pinnacles, like fingers they protrude unevenly above and underneath.

In the boundary, upon the boundary, what is it that you see?

The sand, underneath, the small overshadowed by the rock. The rock is awash, but what is left? The substance of the small.

The fingers of the rock, upon the boundary. My fingers upon the boundary.

The holes in the rock, the holy rock, the set apart.

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.

The part that is set, is that which is set apart!

I have placed, I have set, this apart. This stands out.

What you see above, hides that which is beneath.

I’m moving upon “this place”. It is awash, it flows, the waves crash upon it, but my fingers are upon it.

It bursts forth from beneath, suddenly, a sudden burst, a breaking through, a bursting forth, an eruption, a fountain.

Psalms 114:7-8 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

I see the spacing between the rocks, the pushing in and out, the layers. Connected. Patterns in the rock. The overlay. One, but layered.

It looks like a plant, a tree sliced down the middle, but it is a rock. Shaped by the flow.

That which is heavy and hard is on the top, supported by the small “root”, the small base. It rests upon the sandy floor. It is the small that holds up the large.

Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear and reverence Me? says the Lord. Do you not tremble before Me? I placed the sand for the boundary of the sea, a perpetual barrier beyond which it cannot pass and by an everlasting ordinance beyond which it cannot go? And though the waves of the sea toss and shake themselves, yet they cannot prevail [against the feeble grains of sand which God has ordained by nature to be sufficient for His purpose]; though [the billows] roar, yet they cannot pass over that [barrier]. [Is not such a God to be reverently feared and worshiped?]