The Rock

Yeshua is the Corner Stone (Isaiah 28:16) He must be the foundation, the very Rock on which we must build our house. Everything else is sand. We obey Abba Father because we can and we want to because of the love He has shown us through the gift of Yeshua the Messiah! He is our example and leads us as we walk that very narrow way. He is the Gate! Please do not reject Him! Put Him first or you will get lost and fall off the path.

Yeshua/Jesus is not just an after thought, but was slain from the foundation of the world (Rev. 13:8).  He is Lord and Messiah.

1 Peter 2:1-10
 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, of all deceit, hypocrisy and envy, and of all the ways there are of speaking against people; and be like newborn babies, thirsty for the pure milk of the Word; so that by it, you may grow up into deliverance. For you have tasted that ADONAI is good.
 As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by people but chosen by God and precious to him, you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah. This is why the Tanakh says,
"Look! I am laying in Tziyon a stone,
a chosen and precious cornerstone;
and whoever rests his trust on it
will certainly not be humiliated."
 Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting,
"The very stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone";
 also he is
a stone that will make people stumble,
a rock over which they will trip.
They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it- as had been planned. But you are a chosen people, the King's cohanim, a holy nation, a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; before, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.   

~ painting by Alice Brasser