March 4 2016
Mark 12:10-11 Haven't you read this scripture: "'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
Jesus is in a battle with the political and religious heavy weights of his day. They are throwing the same verbal jabs at him as the politicians of today. They are waiting for him to slip up in one of his responses and then they are going to place that as the headlines in the "Jerusalem Times" newspaper the next morning.
But Jesus is fighting back. He just shared a parable that indicted them as conspirators and then pronounced a prophetic word that sealed their eternal destinies. This word is so powerful that it also seals our destiny. This word is about Jesus himself. Either He is the capstone or He is a crushing stone. If Jesus is the capstone He is the last brick in the building, this symbolizes that Jesus completes our lives. Often this stone was of different material than the rest of the stones. Jesus was rejected by the religious people of his day because He was different. He didn't fit their preconceptions or play the game by the rules they made up.
So if Jesus irritates you. If His words are hard and don't fit into your worldview, your plans, your sexual orientation, if you find his teaching narrow and restrictive, Jesus will become a crushing stone.
But if Jesus becomes the very top of your life, if he guides and directs everything you are and all that you do, He is your capstone. If you live under His authority and His guidance then He completes your life, not complicates it.
The decision is yours and the outcome is your destiny. Choose wisely.
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