After 30 years, now it’s safe to eat eggs. The experts were wrong. Of course, the experts used to think tomatoes were poisonous, too. Nope, it’s Lima beans that are poisonous; ask any kid. You can’t always trust the experts. Expert publishers rejected the novels of John Grisham (16 times!). Expert physicists rejected the theories of Einstein. And expert religious leaders rejected Jesus.
Of course, God saw that coming. He created us humans and knows how we tend to think we know all the answers. Hundreds of years before Jesus, He inspired these words:
“The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone [or cornerstone – same word]; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.” (Psalm 118:22-23 – with my explanation)
Jesus quoted that line to challenge religious leaders who had rejected Him. He is the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God, the foundation stone upon which everything else in God’s Kingdom is built. God has done this, not “the builders.” Not the experts. God’s Kingdom is still growing. Every human kingdom ultimately collapses for want of a strong “cornerstone.”
We still have experts today – leaders, judges, officials, scholars – who choose to build without regard to the “Cornerstone.” Inevitably, what they build is not so “marvelous.”
“[But]…this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.” (Isaiah 28:16b)
Be careful who you trust.
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