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Tripping Over a Rock

  • Writer: Pastor Jim Stultz
    Pastor Jim Stultz
  • Feb 23
  • 2 min read

            The older we get the more careful we need to be about falling. I remember descending an embankment on the way to a favorite fishing spot.  The large rocks were uneven, and I tripped over the last one and landed in the water.  I am so thankful that the only thing I hurt that day was my pride.  Many of us have tripped over a rock once in a while.


            The Bible tells us that Jesus spoke of Himself as being a stone.  The Jewish leaders rejected Jesus as their Messiah.  They spurned God’s Son and crucified Him.  Yet God raised Him from the dead and established Him as the Chief Cornerstone of God’s building, the church.  Matthew 21:42-224 says: “…The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD'S doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes'?  Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.  And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder”.  Those verses say that Jesus is both a stumbling stone and a crushing stone for those who reject Him.  The stumbling stone depicts those who go through life and determine that they do not need Jesus.  The crushing stone describes those same people who reject Christ as being in danger of judgment when the Stone crushes them.


            There is a third picture of Jesus as the Stone.  He is the Chief Cornerstone in God’s redemptive plan.  Ephesians 2:19-20 says: “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone”.  When we accept Him as our Lord and Savior we become part of God’s building, the church.  He is the Cornerstone and we are built upon Him.


            Some people just ignore Jesus and stumble because of apathy.  Some reject the Savior with enmity.  Don’t trip over the Rock.  Instead, build your life on it.

 
 
 

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