Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #97

Cornerstone

Luke 20

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 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 cornerstone'?"

My Thoughts

So in the last post, yesterday's, I mistakenly thought that the capstone, cornerstone and keystone were all basically the same thing. They are not. I wrote about Jesus being the Keystone in actuality yesterday, so today I will write about Jesus being the Cornerstone. Please take a look at the previous post to see the changes.

In construction, the cornerstone is stone on which the structure will be built. It is basically the foundation of the structure. In referring to Jesus, I believe this has two meanings. The first being that Jesus is the foundation of our lives, personally. The second being that Jesus is the foundation of our faith. Both are true, but only one is objectively true.

Jesus is most definitely the cornerstone of our faith in God. If we reject the Son, we cannot know the Father. Jesus has said that no one can come to the Father except through Him. Jesus is the Son of God. To reject Him and what He did and What He stands for means to reject God.

In the Christian faith, there  is something called the Holy Trinity. That means three, and those three being God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three are one and the same and if you reject one, you reject the other two. We cannot say that we believe everything that the Bible says, except that Jesus is God. If you choose not to believe one thing from the Bible, then your faith is flawed because you don't believe everything that your belief is based in and on.

The first way I mentioned that Jesus is the Cornerstone is that He is the foundation of our lives. I can say that I believe this is true for everyone, but really I can only say that it is completely true for me. If someone else does not believe the same thing for them, then that is their choice. I do not believe that a person can build their life on anything but Jesus because of what the Bible teaches.

My life is built on Jesus. Jesus is the foundation of my life; the cornerstone. Jesus is the keystone of my life, holding everything in place.Without Jesus, not only does my life fall apart, but I would have to start over because you cannot remove the foundation of a structure without compromising the entire thing.

If you've built your life on Jesus, then you've done a wise thing. If you haven't, you still can. Everything will change, yes, and that is okay because everything will change for the better. Jesus can hold up your life while He comes in to remove the bad and replace it with good.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!

Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #96

Cornerstone

Keystone

Luke 20

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 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 cornerstone'?"

My Thoughts

So I made a mistake and just realized, the day after posting this that it was the keystone that I was actually talking about in this post, not cornerstone. I will leave the verse alone because that is the verse that made me think of all this to begin with, but some changes will be made. The next post after this one will be about Jesus being the Cornerstone.

One of Jesus' many names is 'Cornerstone.' If Jesus was a person and He is called Cornerstone, then we, as people, must be the other stones. Jesus is like a keystone as well. In construction, the cornerstone keystone is the stone that holds all the other stones in place. This is easily seen in an arch. The stone at the top of an arch, right in the middle, is the cornerstone keystone. If that one stone is removed, the entire arch will fall.

Actually, in thinking about it, if we take the arch example, we are each an arch, not part of an arch with each other, per se. Each stone in the arch, our arch, is a part of our own life. There's a great amount of stones representing each part of our lives. Without Jesus, we crumble in on ourselves. We may be able to hold ourselves for a while, or put something in His place, but nothing is as strong and the load will be too much. Only Jesus can hold everything together. 

So Jesus is the Cornerstone Keystone, right at the top of the arch, that holds us, our lives, together. Those who reject Jesus don't realize that, without Him, they will crumble in on themselves. They try everything to hold their lives together, putting whatever they can in Jesus' place at the top, but nothing else is ever enough.

The arch not only has all the good things in our lives, but also the bad. Those bad stones can be removed though, without compromising the entire arch. As long as the cornerstone keystone is not removed, everything will still hold up. I just thought of this now: This is also another visual for putting Jesus at the center of your life. Our life is the arch, with each stone being another aspect of our lives. The cornerstone keystone is at the very top, right in the center. That is Jesus.

Jesus, the Cornerstone Keystone, at the center of the arch, our lives. That sounds really cool to me! What do you think about all that?

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!