Living Stones for God's House

    "You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God's temple. He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor."
                                                               ~ 1 Peter 2:4

    According to Wikipedia a cornerstone is a stone that forms the base of a corner of a building, joining two walls. An important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. If you look back at the verses you will realize that Christ was described as the cornerstone. So Christ was consider the base of a building and not just any building but God's temple! Even though Christ was rejected so many times for simply being a part of a better kingdom. But despite others rejections Christ was made the most important part of the heavenly temple. I sure you have heard several times that you can't listen to the people that reject you because they obviously can't see your true awesomeness!

    Just like Christ we are destined for greatness. We are to be a piece of God's temple. The walls that are supported off of the cornerstone is what we are a part of. We are called the living stones of God's house. Now of course stones aren't alive but the metaphor for us being stones is very symbolic. Stones are very small but when is the last time you successfully crushed a stone. I don't mean with something else...just you and your bare hands. Unless your the Hulk I doubt you alone can crush a rock. Now if you had a hammer or a professional rock crusher I'm sure you could smash that one stone in a second. But if you had a bunch of stones together it would be a lot harder to crush all those stones especially with your bare hands.

    When we all put ourselves into the walls that are built off of Christ we find ourselves a lot stronger as a body. But that doesn't mean that we can't go outside of the wall to effect the rest. We need to build ourselves up through the body of Christ so we have the ability to go out and spread our knowledge. This analogy really explains the relationship of becoming rooted in Christ. We need to build strong foundations so we are stable in all of our ventures. We need to realize all of the duties we have for being built into God's temple. God himself built it...nobody else which shows so much love and commitment from the big guy. If you really think about it...the only reason we truly stumble is if we don't listen to God's words.

 

    "Once you had no identity as a people;

now you are God's people.

Once you received no mercy;

now you have received God's mercy."

~ 1 Peter 2:10

 

 

    Being a small stone of Christ's temple gives us an identity. We get our own identity as well as identity as the body of Christ. We don't just get any name we get the name of Christ and the least that we can do and represent that house the best that we can. Through this we would receive mercy but clearly not by our own standards but through the name of Christ. This week focus on being in the mind set of being a living stone for Christ and his house alone by crying out for spiritual nourishment.

 

 

 

Word of the Day: "This Book of the Law hall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, then you will have good success."

                                            ~ Joshua 1:8