Weekly Devotion
Hi Faith Family,
Praying you are well today. If you are, that’s certainly something you can build on for the rest of your day. We talked about building quite a bit at church on Sunday. We formally introduced our land/building program as we celebrated “Hard Hat Sunday.”
It’s exciting to plan for a more permanent church home, but the message of the day centered on the building God is doing using our lives. In his massive construction process, the Architect of faith and life uses us as “living stones” to build something wonderful. He inspired these words:
“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
--1 Peter 2:4-5
What a blessing to see your important place in God’s master plan. Not one of us had a claim to a position so high, of course. We were as spiritually dead as granite. Without anything or Anyone to change that condition, we would have remained spiritually dead forever, removed from anything alive or good. It is all too often we feel “under construction” when our failures and sins give evidence of the sinful condition in which we were born.
But “the angel rolled the stone away” as the Easter song so beautifully announces. Because the stone rolled from the mouth of Christ’s tomb echoed empty, your life is full. Christ said he came so you would have life, and have it to the full. The sound of stone against stone that Easter morning is music to the ears of every Christian soul.
Christ’s accepted sacrifice means life to stone-cold hearts. Through Jesus, you have become a living stone. So, what does this mean for your life?
So don’t sit there like a rock! What a wonderful opportunity the Master Builder has given to you—to be a key rock, placed in perfect plumb, to build something wonderful for his praise and glory. As you encounter others this week, please remember that your Christian family and friends are fellow-living stones, placed by God himself into your life. Those precious souls you know who are not yet Christian are tremendous opportunities with whom you can make an impact with godly love, understanding, care, help, and commitment. Like a stone thrown into a still pond, God can use you to make a tremendous impact in the lives of others, all glory to God.
God bless you as you pray about your service in God's master plan. Blessings on your week!
--Pastor Dan