We are the Cornerstone

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It is generally accepted that what God commanded Adam and Eve to do in Genesis 1:28 applies to their descendants. We are their descendants. God essentially commanded Adam and Eve in a manner ensuring that His Creation will last for generations.

He has called on each of us to do our parts to that end, as Romans 8:28-30 infers, and He has equipped us for our separate purposes as it says in Psalms 139:13-14.

We are not born knowing what we were set out to do, but under God there are ways of finding out, keeping in mind that as God favors what is good, He favors those of us who do good. And so as we get to know God, we find out what He wants us to do by others’ reaction to us, and in our love of God, by our own reaction as seen though others to the things we do. In this, God has a practical reason for us to love Him and love eachother. It is through Him that all things turn out for good, and it is through the encouragement of those we love that we find out the plans God has for us. In this manner, each of us find out, for example, that we are not cut out to be Major League ballplayers, but we are cut out to be carpenters or masonry workers, or architects or engineers, or bookkeepers or writers, or dog catchers or leaders in the political realm.

We find out through others that God didn’t equip us to do evil in His Sight, He equipped us to do good. And aside from our relations with others, it is through our love and understanding of God that we can determine what God meant for us to do. Those of us who do what God has equipped us for, are the cornerstone for mankind. God didn’t set us up to be an example that others should admire, He set us up as an example of what God considers to be good as measured by our actions, and in hopes that others who see us will love Him as we do.

And as 1 Peter 2:9 says, we are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that we may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous Light.

In a sense, He also pulls us out of the physical darkness of the womb into the Light that we get to know as we know Him.

 

[Clare73]

It is generally accepted that what God commanded Adam and Eve to do in Genesis 1:28 applies to their descendants. We are their descendants. God essentially commanded Adam and Eve in a manner ensuring that His Creation will last for generations.
He has called on each of us to do our parts to that end, as Romans 8:28-30 infers, and He has equipped us for our separate purposes as it says in Psalms 139:13-14.
We are not born knowing what we were set out to do, but under God there are ways of finding out, keeping in mind that as God favors what is good, He favors those of us who do good. And so as we get to know God, we find out what He wants us to do by others’ reaction to us, and in our love of God, by our own reaction as seen though others to the things we do. In this, God has a practical reason for us to love Him and love eachother. It is through Him that all things turn out for good, and it is through the encouragement of those we love that we find out the plans God has for us. In this manner, each of us find out, for example, that we are not cut out to be Major League ballplayers, but we are cut out to be carpenters or masonry workers, or architects or engineers, or bookkeepers or writers, or dog catchers or leaders in the political realm.

We find out through others that God didn’t equip us to do evil in His Sight, He equipped us to do good. And aside from our relations with others, it is through our love and understanding of God that we can determine what God meant for us to do. Those of us who do what God has equipped us for, are the cornerstone for mankind. God didn’t set us up to be an example that others should admire, He set us up as an example of what God considers to be good as measured by our actions, and in hopes that others who see us will love Him as we do.

And as 1 Peter 2:9 says, we are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that we may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous Light.

In a sense, He also pulls us out of the physical darkness of the womb into the Light that we get to know as we know Him.

Keeping in mind that they are not the cornerstone of the church. That is Jesus.