get the Word out
  • read & share
  • Welcome!
  • Homeschooling (clickschool)
    • Curriculum Planning
    • Bible Curriculum
    • clickschool primary >
      • Week 1 Creation
      • Week 2 Noah
      • Week 3 Joseph
      • Week 4 Moses
      • Week 5 Joshua
      • Week 6 Samuel
      • Week 7 David
      • Week 8 Solomon
      • Week 9 Elijah
      • Week 10 Daniel
      • Week 11 Esther
      • Week 12 Jonah
      • Coming Soon
  • Discipleship

Bearing the Weight

8/17/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
​gettheWordout
17 August 2020 Bearing the Weight
Luke 20:17
But Jesus looked into their eyes and said, “Then what does this verse mean: ‘The stone that the builders refused to accept became the cornerstone’?

Jesus had just told a parable about what happens to people who reject him and should expect God’s judgment. The verse he quotes is from Psalm 118 describing the coming Messiah. Now the Messiah is among them quoting this familiar verse to them. Of course, they got angry.

Bible commentators point out that the cornerstone, designated in antiquity, is the stone used at the building’s corner to bear the weight or the stress of the two walls.

The stone a building needs the most so it won’t collapse would NEVER be rejected or thrown out during construction. No responsible, sensible, intelligent builder would ever do that.  

1 Corinthians 3:9-11
And you are a house that belongs to God.  Like an expert builder I built the foundation of that house. I used the gift that God gave me to do this. Other people are building on that foundation. But everyone should be careful how they build. The foundation that has already been built is Jesus Christ, and no one can build any other foundation.

A life built by following any other way besides The Way cannot withhold the stress and bear the weight of life. Talent, popularity, relationships, and tax returns is not what a Believer should be trusting in and waiting on. Only Jesus can bear the weight of our sins and struggles and make it so we don’t absolutely collapse under stress. Everything else is subject to age, change and the economy, and all sensible builders would reject those stones.

Dear God,
Thank you for knowing exactly what my life should be built on, and that it is your perfect Son, Jesus. Thank you for real security and relief of sin, judgment, death and the minor disasters too. Thank you for never leaving me to my own devices but always showing me how to live by following Jesus, the One who can bear my sin and stress. I love you, and I just can’t thank you enough, and I pray in Jesus’ name, amen.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    March 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly