JESUS, THE CORNERSTONE
Keywords 21:42
Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the
Scriptures: " 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
In Jesus’ parable, the
landowner is God, and the vineyard is the world and our lives. God created the
world and our life and rented both to us. We are the tenants whom God appointed
to take care of God’s world and our
lives and to bear good fruit for him. But the wicked tenants took God’s vineyard for granted and wanted to have what
belonged to God for themselves. They rejected God as if there was no God and
treated his servants violently. Finally, they killed God’s Son and pretended to be owners of their lives and the
vineyard. In this way, they tried to build their lives without God and killed
Jesus and threw him out of the vineyard. They were foolish builders who
rejected Jesus as the foundation of their building with their stubborn pride
and rebellion. But God chose the rejected and killed Son as the cornerstone.
Jesus is God’s standard of measure and alignment. People who reject
Jesus want to build something different from what God is building. They are
like the those who tried to build the tower of Babel. They are like the tenants
who rebelled against God and pursued their own project. The outcome for these
people is God’s judgment. They will be broken to pieces and crushed.
We who received God’s gracious vineyard
need to bear good fruit for God and to build our lives on Jesus, the
Cornerstone.
Prayer Lord,
forgive my pride and help me to humbly bear the fruit of your mission for me.
One Word Jesus is
the foundation of my life
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