THE GOSPEL IN STONES

Throughout the scriptures, as we look,
stones are important in God’s book;
Those cited here are but a few
to illustrate a point of view:

“If you’re God’s son,” the tempter said,
“then tell these stones to turn to bread,”
for He had fasted forty days;
Yet Jesus answered, “Scripture says,
‘Man was not meant to live by bread
‘but by each spoken word of God.’” ( Matt.4:3)

And he advised the Pharisees,
when they exclaimed of heresies,
that, if His friends in silence bowed,
Earth’s very stones would shout out loud.
(Luke 19:40)

Jerusalem, He said, would fall
with stones left standing none at all.
(Matt.24:2;Mark13:2;Luke19:44;21:6)

He warned His followers about
a stone the builders had left out,
rejecting it as just a rock,
till it became a stumbling block;
And how it lay in fields o’er grown,
to then become the cornerstone.
 (Luke 20:17;Acts 4:11;1Pet.2:7)

For centuries mankind has yearned
to leave no scripture stone unturned;
Still, history has not denied
that one dark day a savior died
to conquer death and rise again;
 And thus the consequence of sin
has, ever since that Easter Day,
much like the stone, been rolled away.
 (Matt.28:2;Mark16:4;Luke24:2;John20:1)

--Helen Ewoldsen -- 2-7-03