“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 ESV
The above verses should bring us great hope for a number of reasons. One is that we have salvation, we have hope and we are loved by God through Jesus. The second is sometimes missed because we do not always look beyond the meaning that comes through Jesus. What we miss is that even the people that chose to have Jesus crucified could not stop what God was doing and there is still hope for these people. Too often people forget how powerful God’s grace is even when they think that have acted against God.
This doesn’t mean that we can do what ever we want or that what we do doesn’t matter. It does and yes there are consequences for of actions however, we serve God who is not hung up on the minute, He is the God of the big picture. We can get caught up in all the small details and it can be daunting for us. God is well aware of everything that is going on in each of our lives but we are not the stars of this story. We are part of the great work of Jesus Christ in this life, in this world. Too often we get so focused on ourselves that we miss all that is going on around us and miss all that God is doing to bring healing into our broken world. We are not the stars but we are part of the work of art that is being created.
We can’t mess up what God is doing.
