October 16, 2019
Blessings Beloved,
Upon waking one morning this week, I saw stones and I heard “Lively Stones” as referenced in I Peter 2:5.
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
In this verse Peter piles up his metaphors in this manner: He gathers together three symbols. In one breath we are ‘temples,’ in the next ‘priests,’ and in the third ‘sacrifices.’ All three are needed to body out the whole truth of our relationship in Christ.
We are individually and collectively temples, inasmuch as we are the ‘habitation of God through the Spirit.’ We are priests by virtue of our consecration, our direct access to God, our function of representing God to men, and of bringing men to God. We are sacrifices, inasmuch as one main part of our priestly function is to offer ourselves to God!!!
