1 Peter 2:5-7
Come to Christ who is the living cornerstone of God's temple. He was rejected by the people, but he is precious to God who chose him. And now God is building you, as living stones, into his spiritual temple. What's more, you are God's holy priests, who offer the spiritual sacrifices that please him because of Jesus Christ. As the Scriptures express it, "I am placing a stone in Jerusalem, a chosen cornerstone, and anyone who believes in him will never be disappointed. Yes, he is very precious to you who believe. But for those who reject him, the stone that was rejected by the builders has now become the cornerstone."
Peter talks of the discarded stone as the piece that will ultimately complete and establish the temple as a whole. A cornerstone is absolutely critical to the structural integrity of a temple. The Temple of the Holy Spirit is not made of stone anymore but of the people who believe Jesus is who he says he is. We are those people. We are the temple. This verse humbles me so much as I consider the stones that I have used to build my identity and purpose in this life. Without Jesus, my life would be unstable and in fruitless ruin. The only reason I am a completed temple instead of a pile of stones is because Jesus Christ, my cornerstone, stabilizes and establishes all the pieces that are put together to make me who I am, a temple for the Holy Spirit.
Dear Jesus,
I ask that you would encourage all of us to walk the inner and outer courts of the temple within, circle the alter, and peer into the door that leads to the Holy of Holies. Help us to challenge the money changers of our temples with truth just as you challenged them in the flesh so long ago. Help all of us to draw closer and closer to you as we accept who you truly are in every area of who we are. Help us to meditate on this truth and allow it to penetrate deep into the roots and layers of our new creations so that we will become temples founded on truth and will bring glory to you. Amen.
p.s. if you have any prayer requests that you want people to be praying for, please feel free to post them. Love you guys. -Sar
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I think it is the most beautiful thing that God wants to build his temple in us. I don't really understand it except that it is gorgeous. We are so imperfect and fallen in ourselves and just because he is so full of grace he gives us some of his perfect self. Awesome, Incredible.
Also he wants to do this in each of us if we let him, and also he wants to do it in our community as a whole. I feel like a part of a love song.
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