One man's trash is another man's salvation. That's not quite how that old saying goes. But it might as well be scripture.
Psalm 118 says it like this: "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.' And once you start looking, you realize how often that pattern emerges. Not just in scripture, but in the world around us, too.
Vincent van Gogh died with little recognition, calling himself a "nonentity." Thomas Edison was labeled slow and unteachable. Frida Kahlo was overshadowed and dismissed.
But what was overlooked became undeniable. What was once rejected became a fascination.
What we're not used to is realizing we would have done the same thing to Jesus. Not to compare him to artists or inventors, but to confess something about ourselves. We don't always recognize what God is doing, even when it's standing right in front of us.
Jesus didn't fit the blueprint for so many people in his time. Listen to some Christians today, and you realize that’s still true. Jesus doesn’t always meet certain expectations of dominance or judgment. So, builders, those religious, powerful, and certain people, pushed him aside.
People called him a blasphemer, a fraud, and considered him disposable. But God said, "This is my beloved Son."
Which means that the cross was no accident. It was a planned and purposeful rejection of the stone. For those people against Jesus, the stone they rolled in front of his grave was their sign of victory. Jesus' resurrection, though, reveals that the stone they threw away is now the cornerstone that everything else must align with.
In the spirit of Jesus' resurrection, we can see that God is still building with what the world discards. Maybe what you've called useless God calls chosen. What you've buried God is raising. Or what you've rejected is exactly what God intends to use.
Don't be too quick to throw it away. God might be building on it.
Stay blessed...john
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