The Song of Moses gives Israel its bedrock name for God: He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just, a faithful God who does no wrong.

Jesus, meanwhile, tells servants to stay dressed for service with lamps burning, like people waiting for their master's knock. A Rock beneath you and a doorway ahead of you. Live today between those two certainties.

I put to death and I bring to life is either terrifying or the best news in existence, depending on your footing. On the Rock, it means no grave gets the last word and no enemy holds the keys. Off the rock, every substitute foundation, Moses warned, eventually proves to be sand with a reputation.

The watching-servants parable adds the posture: lamps lit, belts fastened, not from anxiety but expectancy, because the Master who knocks intends, staggeringly, to serve the ones He finds awake. Much has been given you, this Book, this day, this grace, and much will be asked. Stand on the Rock and stay dressed for the door.