Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?What a great picture. God lays the cornerstone for the world and heaven breaks out in the Hallelujah Chorus.
Tell me, if you know so much.
Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?
What supports its foundations,
and who laid its cornerstone
as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy? (Job 38:4-7)
After all, the foundation and cornerstone of this world is Jesus. And the word says that he was laid from before the foundation of the world.
So when God set everything up and got everything ready, the angels were watching, waiting. He set the dimensions of this new world, he lays out the surveying line and ours the foundation.
The angels cheer.
The cornerstone is laid – the Word himself – and the stars sing together. the world is set up and the angels are shouting for joy, the stars sing, all of creation is beside itself in joy.
I wonder, though, if the angels or the morning stars knew the pain that would come in all this.
Yes, Jesus is the Foundation and the Cornerstone. But to truly take his place as those, he had to become human and die a violent death.
God knew it, of course. And since God knew, the Word knew, as did the Spirit.
They knew the sacrifice that would be made so that the people of earth would have access to God, would be able to show their love for him and feel his love.
What love God had for these people who turned from him the first chance they had, who spent so much time doing whatever they could to be against him.
What unspeakable love. Praise God.
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