Jesus Used Stones

While scripture is often understated, it’s important to take time and really think about what it says. For example, think about in Luke 19 when the Pharisees were once again trying to put Jesus into his place. And Jesus, too, put them to shame. This time he used the simplest of what he say around him. Jesus used stones.

When the Pharisees told Jesus to keep his disciples quiet, Jesus told them, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” 

Think about that for a moment.

Stones?

There’s no life in rocks. There may be signs of a live that once was, as fossils … or veins of compressed eras of long past, like coal or precious metals. But there is nothing in a rock that is alive. Yet Jesus said (and I truly believe him) that if His people stay still, even the stones will praise Him.

I don’t know about you, but I do not want to be showed up by a pile of rocks.

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” Luke 19:39-40

I choose to worship the Creator of the Universe.