SAPATE NOVEMA 5, 2023
Controversial Cornerstone
Ko e Maka Tuliki Fehu’ia
ISAIAH 28:16
THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, "BEHOLD, I AM THE ONE WHO HAS LAID AS A FOUNDATION IN ZION, A STONE, A TESTED STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNERSTONE, OF A SURE FOUNDATION: 'WHOEVER BELIEVES WILL NOT BE IN HASTE.'"
‘AISEA 28:16
Ko ia ko eni ‘a e folofola ‘a ‘Ātonai Sihova: Vakai, ko au eni kuo ‘ai ‘i Saione ha maka, ha maka sivi, ha maka tuliki mahu‘inga kuo fungani hono fakatoka: ko ia ‘oku tui ‘e ‘ikai ‘oho.
When the Lord twisted a whirlwind into a megaphone to interrogate Job, he asked, "Who laid [the earth's] cornerstone?" (38:4, 6). That's a rhetorical question, of course. God didn't convene a committee of human consultants and angelic advisors to garner their architectural wisdom when he made the world. He knew what he was doing. As with creation, so with redemptive re-creation: he chose the perfect pinnah "cornerstone") for the job. But people, intoxicated by their own wisdom, stumble like blind drunks on this stone of salvation. They reject him, toss him into the disposal pit like
a chunk of cracked concrete. But "the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone [pinnah]" (Ps. 118:22). One man's trash is the one God's treasure.
We "come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious" (1 Pet. 2:4). And we, human stones palpitating with the life of Jesus, are cemented by the Spirit into a spiritual house, to be his priests, to offer to him sacrifices with shouts of joy.
Blessed are you, Jesus, the Rock of our redemption, in whom we are found and on whom we are founded as the church of the living God.
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