Living Stones

I Peter 2:4-10
By Harold Dinsmore, M.Div.
© 2008 Harold Dinsmore

God has a house.  We have always thought God lived in heaven, but he has a house.  In fact, it is still under construction because God is a master builder.

In our text this morning we discover that Peter is talking about stones.  Rock is a major building material for man.  Even today, we mine rock, crush it, add some water and some other ingredients, and we have concrete.  Stone and its products are the building blocks of man.

In I Peter 2:4-5, we have an invitation offered to us.  It says, “Come to Him!”  Come to God in Christ.  But this invitation to come to Christ is an invitation to come to a living stone.

I have this morning a stone I want you to see.  Everyone has seen a stone like this.  As we think about stones this morning, we usually think of them as what we have here – cold, unresponsive rocks.  We don’t usually talk to stone, but we are invited to come to the living stone.  We do not serve a dead God!  We do not worship something some person has hewn out of some rock or fashioned out of concrete.  We serve a living God, who inhabits His own people.Why do you suppose Peter refers to Jesus as a living stone?