REJECTED STONE BECOMES THE CORNER STONE Part-1 Dear God's Children!! How are you doing?? This morning I reflected on a very important statement of Yeshua. Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:“ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? (Matt 21:42). What does it mean to us?? Our life is a complicated bag of many things where we often reject its key aspects. Even our spirituality is so limited that we define it as extremely self centric. So, often as spiritual seekers, we get frustrated at missing God's lead. We miss God's discernment to fulfill His Will. We forget that His Will is the most important aspect while we take and make decisions of our lives. This is the what happened with the Jews. The Jewish leadership rejected God's Son, their "stone" of Kingdom movement, because they were not looking for a Yeshua like Messiah. He didn't fit their idea of a Saviour. In their carelessness and hardness of heart, they rejected the very stone on which their salvation should have been built. As usual Yeshua was speaking about the Kingdom of God to the crowd. This verse appears in the context of a parable about a vineyard owner who first sends servants twice and then his son to collect fruit from his tenants. The tenants mistreat and kill the servants and the son, mirroring the religious leaders' rejection of Baliraja, who they were meant to be building God's kingdom. Yeshua uses the metaphor of a stone that builders (religious leaders) reject, deeming it unfit for use. However, this rejected stone becomes the most important part of the structure, the cornerstone, highlighting that God's ways are not always human ways. #faith #scripture #bibleverse to be continued....