1st Peter 2:4. “To coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,” A LIVING STONE. A very unusual analogy makes me stop and think, What is the “Living Stone” God chose me to bring To that I might see beyond what is normal to men, And see what He has chosen and what is precious to Him.
To men a stone is some hard, inanimate thing. Yet to me, about a “Living Stone”, there’s a song I sing Because this Stone is a Person who gives life to what’s dead, And this Living Stone is not just the foundation, it’s also the Head.
This Stone is the Lord on which the house of God is built. Everyone who comes in faith, the life of the Stone has felt. We came past the scorners, mockers and such – And found the Living Stone was warm to the touch.
Life from that Stone brought life from Him to me – The Stone that men rejected was a Stone that can see. And that “Living Stone” is also “Living bread” that came from heaven, And it is also “Living Water” and the “Living Way” God has given.
I have come to this Stone, or better, God brought me to it – And I find by that Living Stone, there’s a place where I fit. The life that is in that Stone is the life that is in me – So, the spiritual house I’m a part of will last eternally.
“O God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ: I thank and praise Thee this day for allowing me to come to Christ, and imparting to this small pebble a life that will last forever – like that of the Living Stone. Amen.”