Do you remember the day you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior? I do not have the exact date because I was only five years old, but I know the details of that day.
My family and I (My dad, mom, and two sisters) attended a semi-small church. It was Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and in the small town where I grew up. A lot of great people surrounded my family and me. I can remember the dinners where the men hovered around the smoker cooking the meat, the ladies preparing side dishes and delicious desserts. I also cannot forget the Easter egg hunts and the day I accepted Jesus.
I was sitting on my mom’s lap while the preacher delivered his weekly message that God laid on his heart. As the tears rolled down my face my mom, asked me, “why are you crying,” and I said, “ I just asked Jesus to forgive me, and I asked him into my heart.”
That was the day Jesus became my cornerstone for everything I would face in the life set before me.
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
In my previous post, we learned the importance of a sturdy foundation. To have that sturdy foundation, you must position the cornerstone into place. The first step is to acknowledge your sins, ask for forgiveness, and accept Jesus as the Son of God.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 3:16-18
Years later, I am still learning just how much God loves me, even through my marriage. God has placed me with a man who seeks him, and together, we are building with Jesus as our cornerstone.
A good marriage is never easy and takes time to develop. I’m seven years in, and I’ve had personal growth, things from the past to let go of, and I’ve had to learn to share. Marriage is letting go of self and becoming the mirror opposite of your spouse.
Marriage isn’t the way Hollywood portrays it to be in their films. It is perfectly crafted the way God designed it. God even sacrificed his Son, Jesus, so we would have a firm foundation that would never falter.
Do not be like the ones who rejected the cornerstone because it wasn’t exactly how they pictured it to be.
Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
Ephesians 2:20
Have you made Jesus the cornerstone of your life and your marriage?
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