From J. C. Philpot's Daily Portions
November 29 "O my dove, in the clefts of the rock." Song of
Solomon 2:14 Jesus is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin
and self. "You are my hiding-place," said David of old. This was shown to
Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which
Toplady has so beautifully versified, to paint the longing desires of his
soul– "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee!" It is on this "Rock of Ages" that God has built his
Church. As a rock, he is deep as well as high--so deep as to have
under-bottomed the depths of the fall, so high as to be God's fellow, seated
at his right hand. As a rock, also, he is broad as well as long--broad
enough to bear millions of living stones built on him, and long enough to
reach from eternity to eternity. The Apostle, therefore, prays that the
Church at Ephesus may comprehend with all saints, "what is the breadth and
length, and depth and height, and know the love of Christ which passes
knowledge."