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Our Love for God

Love Songs That Glorify God

Pondering God's Steadfast Love

1 Peter 2:1-8 The Message 

2 1-3 So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.

The Stone

4-8 Welcome to the living Stone, the source of life. The workmen took one look and threw it out; God set it in the place of honor. Present yourselves as building stones for the construction of a sanctuary vibrant with life, in which you’ll serve as holy priests offering Christ-approved lives up to God. The Scriptures provide precedent:
Look! I’m setting a stone in Zion,
    a cornerstone in the place of honor.
Whoever trusts in this stone as a foundation
    will never have cause to regret it.
To you who trust him, he’s a Stone to be proud of, but to those who refuse to trust him,
The stone the workmen threw out
    is now the chief foundation stone.
For the untrusting it’s
. . . a stone to trip over,
    a boulder blocking the way.
They trip and fall because they refuse to obey, just as predicted.

For Reflection

The stone of our Christian foundation is Christ.  It is he upon which our faith is built.  It is Christ who provides us with a way of being that is consistent with the will of God. 

This stone which is our foundation is the stone which trips those on a secular path.  This stone is an impediment which blocks their godless ambitions, and their success is short-lived.  They never reach a state of peace.

Pray

Pray so that you develop an intimate relationship with the living stone.

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