Today's Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 11 verses 10 and 11:
10Have you not read this scripture:
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
11 this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes”?’
C.S. Lewis said he became a Christian when he came to understand the archetypal truth buried in all the stories of the world, which echo the great story of the Gospel.
I am thinking of Cinderella. Here we have the story of the outcast person rejected and despised by her sisters, at the instigation of jealous hatred -- in this case the bitter hatred of her own stepmother. Cinderella is treated as worthless scum, dirt by the villainous stepmother and her minion daughters. Yet, the Prince somehow sees the beauty in Cinderella and brings her with him into the royal castle to live happily ever after.
The archetype tells us again and again that it is the scorned and rejected and abused who is chosen to be the princess. It is what no one else can see within us which God can see and brings forth out of us to be a part of the royal castle.
This is an archetype of the Gospel; and once we have eyes to look for it we see it everywhere.
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