Text:
1 Peter 2:1-9
Memory Verse:
“Therefore to you who believe, He is precious, but to those who are disobedient ‘The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone’” (1 Peter 2:7).
A living stone is a paradox, a natural impossibility. Stones are minerals Aand not organic, and we even have the expression “as dead as a stone”. Yet the Lord Jesus is called a living stone, and so are we (1 Peter 2:5). Christ indeed died on the Cross, yet He lives forevermore. He is the living cornerstone. Believers by their union with Him are both dead and alive too. The believer is dead to sin and alive to righteousness, dead to self and alive to Christ, dead to the law and alive to God. “… do you not know that as many of us as were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was
raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life” (Romans 6:3&4).
Now, because of our union with Christ who said “I am He that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore Amen” (Revelation 1:18) we also become living stones and are being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus, the Living Stone, is the eternal rock on which the Christian builds and underneath which the sinner will be crushed. The big question, therefore, is, are you building your faith on this Living Stone? If you truly build on Him, the enemy cannot molest you.
Prayer Points:
1. Lord, help me to build on You, the Living Stone.
2. As I build on the Living Stone, Lord, keep me from the molestations of the enemy.
