REJECTION-THE CORNERSTONE
Have you ever been rejected
Totally shot down by another person
Or a group of people
That you wanted to be a part of
Shunned-excluded
It doesn’t feel very good
DOES IT
I would venture to say
That each and everyone of us
Have been rejected
By someone that we wanted to include us
In their life-in some way
Well that
Is what happened to OUR LORD
He came
To love the people of his day
And he was rejected publicly
And, in addition, tortured and humiliated
Our Lord knew
He was going to be rejected
For we find
A foreshadowing in the old testament
Which he knew intimately
“The stone the builders rejected
Is now the cornerstone” Psalm
118:22
“He was despised and rejected by
men
A man of sorrows-and familiar
with suffering
Like one
From whom men hide their faces
He was despised
And we esteemed him not” Isaiah 53:3
Know this
Our Lord CHOSE to love us anyway
And his rejection
Has become the salvation for 1 billion people
Who call themselves Christians
God and Christianity
Are under attack by the secular world today
Our Lord and Savior-sometimes I
feel
Are being put to death all over again
I urge-those who believe
To KEEP ON BELIEVING
To KEEP ON LOVING
To KEEP ON FORGIVING
Despite the little acts of treason
And rejection
That we all feel
For in 2 Peter 7-it says
“Now to you who believe
This stone is precious
But to those who do not believe
The stone the builders rejected
Has become the cornerstone”
It is up to us
To NOT let God and Christ
Be rejected a second time
Believe
Because Jesus himself told us:
“Because the Kingdom
of God
We can change the world
By being disciples of Christ
And choosing to love
Despite what the world throws at us
“A new command I give you
Love one another
As I have love you
So you must love one another
By this
All will know you are my disciples
If you love one another”
John 13:34-35
BELIEVE AND LOVE
And maybe we can hear one more
time
“The stone that the builders
rejected
Has become the cornerstone”
Robert P. Wallman
4-23-12
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