okay so I want to tell you a little secret about this word adamant long
before it was an adjective or an adverb it was an noun and in many ways it was
actually a dream the Greek poets and philosophers the same ones who gave us
the Philosopher's Stone also came up with this concept of the adamant stone
they decided there was a stone that might be woven so tightly that any
inferior stone that came in contact with it would be crushed it would also be
magnetic where it would draw but not be drawn it would be able to capture light
and redirect it you could put it in a fire and you could pull it out no be
cool to the touch and they knew that whatever nation could mint mine this
mineral or stone would be invincible so they called it Adamas which means
invincible this idea of a stone that was indestructible was so compelling that it
traveled from Greece to Great Britain and in Great Britain they renamed it
adamant 400 BC they discovered diamonds and with the discovery of diamonds they
thought a diamond was an adamant because the diamond is the hardest substance but
then in the 1700s they put a diamond in a vacuum and magnified light and a
vaporized they're like okay a diamond is not an adamant they disassociated the
word from the stone and it became adjective adverb stubborn unyielding
immovable but here's what I want to think about what if there weren't these
random musings what if they were looking for something they had not yet seen what
if they were talking about what we see in Isaiah 51 verse one looked to the
rock from which you were hewn and the quarry from which you were dug what if
they were thinking with a longing for something that you had yet to be
realized because he nobody goes on quests for stones
a power anymore we have all become realists we have walked on the moon
we have probed the depths of the ocean and yet we have been stripped of
everything that causes us awe and we have lost contact with answers larger than
ourselves we have bound ourselves to monetary
systems that trap us in debt the highly educated and well-connected often lack
opportunity the political systems that were meant to unite us now divide us our
networks are vast but our connections are shallow we have
an abundance of sex and a famine of intimacy we use technology to throw
stones at people we will never see that's because when truth becomes fluid
we lose our way and real truth is not a river real truth is rock real truth is
adamant it is indivisible it is immovable it is invincible and I
believe that Jesus isn't just the way in the life but He is also the truth I
believe that Jesus is the adamant I believe he is that stone that is not
born of Earth that stone that actually has the ability to hit any lesser stone
I believe it is a stone that Nebuchadnezzar saw and his vision when
Daniel is talking to him and sees you saw a stone not made with hands and that
that stone hits the image of everything that we see as man-made but then the
stone becomes a mountain and the mountain fills the entire earth and that
mountain that fills the entire earth we know is Zion
so I believe that Jesus is that cornerstone He is that living stone He
is the one that will draw but never be drawn and I believe that we are not just
clinging to this rock hoping that some wave does not knock us off but that we
are in that rock and if we fall we fall in the rock of Jesus Christ and we have
to know what it means to be in Christ because we're going to need to be in
that immovable invincible position we're going to have to be
people who are adamant