You Yourselves Also, as Living Stones, Are Being Built Up as a Spiritual House
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Let's Pray:
Lord, we praise You that You have made us Your temple; we are Your dwelling place. We and You as two spirits have become one spirit. We pray that You bless us.
Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious,
1 Pet. 2:5
You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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A living stone is one that not only possesses life but also (grows) in life. This is (Christ) for God's building. Here Peter changed his metaphor from a seed, which is of the (vegetable) life (1:23-24), to a stone, which is of the (minerals). The seed is for life-(planting); the stone is for (building) (v. 5). Peter's thought went on from life-planting to God's building. As life to us, Christ is the seed; for God's building, He is the (stone). After receiving Him as the seed of life, we need to (grow) that we may experience Him as the (stone) living in us. (See 1 Pet. 2:4 note 1)