Cornerstone

This is my first post on my blog :) God has given me a lot of insight lately and it would be pointless if I kept it to myself. Hopefully whoever reads this will learn and grow in their spiritual walk. I love Jesus and just wanna share what he shows me and teaches me daily!

Cornerstone:

There is division everywhere we look in the world; race, religion, income status, even in our own homes. There always seems to be war, arguments between denominations, old ways vs new ways, teenager vs parent, even husband vs wife... We all just want peace especially in our lives and in our homes.

In the old testament it was Jews completely separate with the Gentiles. The Jews were God's chosen people. Now they kept things apart between the two ( just remember how it used to be with black and white, separate water fountains, bathrooms etc.) the jews wouldn't eat with the gentiles. Even if they passed through the gentile land they would cleanse their feet before entering the Holy Land. There was a dividing barrier between them.  Also a literal wall in the temple in Jeruselum separating there courts. Jesus broke that barrier. He broke ours too, by being the ultimate sacrifice, dying on the cross.   This gave us peace. Ephesians 2:14 for he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. We all have walls in places in our lives where we probably wish there wasn't. Jesus gave us peace we just have to receive it.

Ephesians2:11-22
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)-remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenatnts of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundatin of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Jesus is our peace. Our only source. A lot of times we go to our spouse for peace, or a friend. God himself can only fix our sinful nature. My husband can point it out (lol ;) ) The only one who can change that is Jesus.

The only way to get this peace to break down the barriers in our life is to have Jesus. Not just be an acquaintance with Jesus but to have him the foundation, cornerstone, of you life!!!
Definition of cornerstone is a stone that forms the base of a corner of a building joining two walls; an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. The building in you, your life, Jesus has to be the root of it all.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore says the Lord God, "Behold I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

What the Lord is saying here is laying a stone is giving us his Son, a tested stone (standing up to satan's temptations), a costly one (sacrificing his life on the cross, the ultimate price). He placed it firmly there forever. He who believes in it can have that peace.

Now back to Ephesians when it says And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Jesus is the cornerstone to building a dwelling of the Holy Spirit in you!


prayer:  Jesus I pray that you would be the root and cornerstone of my life. When the world around me has so many barriers, help me come to you to receive the peace you have already sacrificed for.  I want to dwell the Holy Spirit everywhere I go!
Amen.


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