Capstone

It's a continual conversation. When I'm talking with someone and I have to leave, I tell them that the conversation is not over. That's how it is with Jesus...all the time. It is a continual conversation that is full of life...the deep things and the shallow things. It is a conversation that I never want to end because it fills me with life. It fills me with peace. It fills me with joy. It fills me with love. A love that is abounding, freely given and unconditional. A love that I completely and utterly do NOT understand, but am so incredibly grateful for, at the same time.

That is the God that we serve.

Jesus is our cornerstone. Last night, at college group, Paul was talking about Luke 20 and how it is talking about the capstone. When the Wailing Wall was being built, each stone had to be examined and fitted perfectly to one another. The flawed one that was not fit to be in the wall was used to be the cornerstone. The cornerstone or capstone was the strongest part of that wall.

"'The stone the builders rejected 

has become the capstone?

Everyone who falls on that stone will 

be broken to pieces,

but he on whom it falls

will be crushed."

 Luke 20:17b-18

 

We are broken people. When we give our lives to Jesus, we are crushed. It is a complete grinding destruction. We walk around broken, unable to be fixed. Unless, we lean on Christ. When we make the choice to follow Christ, we are allowing him to tell us how broken we are. We are giving him the permission to put the pieces back together. We are telling him that we cannot live life on our own. But that gives me hope. 

As I see my brokenness, every single day, I run to Jesus. He works in me and puts me back together. Just as things seem to be working and the brokenness dissipates, he shows me another area where I am broken. Then I run back to him, and ask for his divine intervention. There is always hope, because we don't have to live on our own. We don't have to fix our problems. God will take care of it, if you trust.  

We may always be in a broken state, but God is the glue that can put us back together and make us better than before. In our brokenness, God reveals his beauty. Your brokenness is beautiful. 

Embrace it, 

don't run from it. 

He is with you.