Touchstone…..to basis…to cornerstone…

 

Touchstone…to basis….to cornerstone…

Definition of touchstone

1

: a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : BASIS

Definition of basis

1

: the bottom of something considered as its foundation

Definition of cornerstone

1

: a stone forming a part of a corner or angle in a wall

specifically : such a stone laid at a formal ceremony

2

: a basic element : FOUNDATION……Merriam Webster 

“The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.” Wikipedia…

Was reading about “touchstones”, places that we have in our lives that may bring peace, change, a foundation….they may be painful places or not, a physical place, or emotional or spiritual…places our hearts long for or not, places that can make us who we are…they can build us up, tear us down…and  we may need to lay a new touchstone to replace a painful one…make a new foundation for our lives…

The definitions of touchstone goes into basis…what is our basis of life? We have to answer that…and find the real foundation….the cornerstone…the stone the sets the standard…

We each make that decision…

Who or what is my foundation?

Joshua, of long ago made the  statement, “But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord .”

Joshua 24:15b

Thousand of generations since then have made their choice one way or another…who will be their foundation and we are still making it now….

Thank YOU….

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Psalm 118:22

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.’

Isaiah 28:16

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Matthew 21:42

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:11-12

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:20-22

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 

So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

1 Peter 2:4-7 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you,  not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

2 Peter 3:9-10