On Easter, Jesus rose from the grave and was seen (alive!) by his followers. How easy is it for you to remember on days like Good Friday that “This is the day that the LORD has made let us rejoice and be glad in it”? For Christians, that might be Good Friday or Easter. The psalmist says, however, that the day he is specifically thinking of - the day worth rejoicing over and being glad - is the day that the stone becomes the chief cornerstone. It is good for us to quote verse 24 about any day: “This is the day that the LORD has made let us rejoice in be glad in it!” It’s worth remembering that verse when appearances might make us forget that God is with us.
This is the day that the LORD has made let us rejoice and be glad in it. The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. What teachings of Jesus do you find difficult to accept or difficult to apply in your daily life? What teachings of Jesus have you used when building your life? On a smaller scale, people who believe Jesus is the Messiah sometimes reject some of Jesus’ teachings and refuse to use them when building their lives. Where is Jesus in the construction of your life? Today, like in Peter’s day, some people reject Jesus as the Messiah. In the above passage, Peter writes that Jesus is the fulfillment of Psalm 118:22, that Jesus is stone the builders rejected that become the cornerstone. Jesus also referred to Psalm 118 and its idea of the stone that was rejected becoming the cornerstone (in Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10 and Luke 20:17). Jesus repeatedly told his disciples he would be rejected (i.e., Mark 8:31, Luke 9:22 and 17:25). Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. For it stands in scripture: “See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” To you then who believe, he is precious but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner,” and “A stone that makes them stumble, and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. When have you rejected something that you later discovered was worthwhile?Ĭome to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Sometimes people reject ideas or people that they later discover have great value. But even though they rejected it, the stone became the most important one of all, the one around which the whole building was constructed. The builders mentioned in this psalm thought that a particular stone was not good enough to use anywhere in the construction, not even on the back side of the building or in the hidden places. This is the Lord’s doing it is marvelous in our eyes.
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