“My teaching will fall on you like rain; my speech will settle like dew. My words will fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.” –Deuteronomy 32:2

Doesn’t that sound as though you are about to be so thoroughly soaked with satisfaction you’ll never be thirsty again? What beautiful words! Those of us who teach must want to fall on our knees before this verse! Moses had a message that would thoroughly refresh his hearers. Part of this fresh message was the concept of God as our Rock: “He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!”(Deuteronomy 32:4).

The picture of God as our Rock is firmly embedded in the ground of the Old Testament. Moses says that God is a perfect…