I’m not a scientist, but I know a few things about rocks. Rocks are solid, hard, and very difficult to break. Rocks start out coarse, rough, and ugly, but, when polished, rocks
can become smooth, shiny, and beautiful.
Very large rocks are called boulders. Boulders are immovable. If there is a boulder in your path, you can’t ignore it; you can’t deny that it is there. In Isaiah 44:8, God refers to Himself as our Rock saying, “Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”
God being our Rock isn’t strictly and Old Testament truth. It continues throughout the New Testament. For example, Ephesians 2:20 (TLB) says, “What a foundation you stand on now: the apostles and the prophets; and the cornerstone of the building is Jesus Christ himself!” A cornerstone is a large, specially cut rock used as the foundation for a building. Today, cornerstones are symbolic, but in Bible times, the cornerstone was vital to ensuring a strong, solid foundation for a building.
Spiritually speaking, Jesus is our Cornerstone. He is the solid, immovable, foundation on and around which the “rocks” of our lives must be built. Only by remembering that Jesus can’t be ignored can we choose to line up the rocks of our lives with His perfect example. Only by placing Jesus first in our lives can the rocks of our lives become strong and usable for God’s work. Only by building the rocks of our lives on the
perfect, true, and unchanging nature, sacrifice, and life of Jesus Christ can we become the people God created us to be. Only by leaning completely and without reservation on Christ, our Cornerstone, can God take the coarse, rough, ugly rocks that we are and polish us until we become beautiful works of art in God’s kingdom.
Have you lined up the rock of your life with The Perfect Cornerstone? If not, I hope you will do so today.
Let’ pray that our Heavenly Father will help us to carefully place Jesus Christ, the “Rock.” the Perfect Cornerstone, at the center of our lives. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Related Verses:
1 Peter 2:6 (TLB) – “As the Scriptures express it, "See, I am sending Christ to be the carefully chosen, precious Cornerstone of my church, and I will never disappoint those who trust in him.”
Deuteronomy 32:4 – “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.”
1 Samuel 2:2 – “There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”
2 Samuel 22:32 & 47 – “For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?...The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!”
Psalms 78:35 – “They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.”
Psalms 95:1 – “Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.”
Habakkuk 1:12 – “O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.”
Luke 20:17 – “Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone’?”
Acts 4:11 – “He is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.'”
1 Peter 2:4-8 – “As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him – you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.’ Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,’ and, ‘A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the message – which is also what they were destined for.”