Cornerstone
This week in both our Sunday gathering and our Women’s Conference, we are introducing a new song called Cornerstone by Hillsong Worship. This song is based off the well-known hymn, The Solid Rock (My Hope Is Built). The verses are very similar to the hymn, but there is a new chorus added in:
“Christ alone Cornerstone
Weak made strong in the Savior's love
Through the storm He is Lord
Lord of all!”
The word, “cornerstone,” is not a word we really ever use in our daily vernacular unless we are perhaps referring to the name of a church we know of with that name. But when we look at Scripture, we see this word used several times. In the Old Testament, when we think of a building like the temple, the “cornerstone” was the primary foundation stone on which the structure of the temple rested. It was the very foundation of the temple. We see in Scripture an incredible truth about who Jesus is and who we are as His Church in relation to a cornerstone:
“19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.21 In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.” (Ephesians 2:19-20)
Not only do we see that we are called “citizens with saints” and members of God’s family, we see that the very foundation of this family, the cornerstone of this Church, is Jesus Christ. The Church completely depends on Christ as its foundation. It is only by Jesus and because of Jesus that the Church exists today and will exist for all eternity. He is firm through the fiercest drought and storm. He is the One our hope is built upon. He is our unshakable and immovable foundation.