REJECTION=THE CORNERSTONE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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