JOURNAL/REJECTION---THE CORNERSTONE

"MY STRENGTH and courage is the Lord
AND he has been MY SAVIOR"    Psalm    118:14

On a dark gray Friday afternoon-Jesus conquered darkness and death-WE TOO face much darkness
on our journey:

Sickness-anxiety-personal conflicts-bereavement-etc.-but even as the problems continue-we must
soldier on  and attempt to UNITE our lives with Jesus to cry out VICTORY

What is comforting is that Jesus WALKS beside us and gives us HIS LOVE as he LEADS the way

IT is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE! in this comforting LOVE that GOD GIVES US every day




















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 is within you” Luke 17:21


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





Ps MISC. WITNESS 4-26-14