Kiss the Wave

I was recently listening to a sermon by Matt Chandler (which you can listen to Here and I strongly suggest it, it's a part of a series on holiness)

He quoted Spurgeon at one point, and being the imaginative, and visual person that I am, this really stuck out to me and encouraged me. 

"I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages." -Spurgeon  

How painful trials can be, and yet the Lord gives them to us for our good and so that He can complete the work He began in us. In my weakness I would not want to be caught in that wave; but thank the Lord He doesn't give me a choice and forces me to cling to Him. 

"Cling to the rock that is higher than I." Psalm 51