Devotional Guide -- April 5

Friday, April 5, 2019
Jesus, the Christ

“Come to him to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious; and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” I Peter 2:4-5

Christianity in America is often extremely easy. We come to church on Sunday – or some Sundays. We’re busy during the week, and probably don’t have a lot of time for other worship. We try to be pretty good people, not doing harm, giving food to the food pantry, and not turning the air blue with our language when someone encroaches on our space on US 19. But does that meet the standards of the verse above?

We will soon enjoy our new facility, built with the best materials by competent builders and overseen by the watchful eye of Dave Marquis and all his building committee. We’ll enjoy that “spiritual house” for years to come.

But Jesus Christ is a different kind of stone – a precious, rejected, living stone, the model of the stone we are to be to fit a different kind of edifice – the one Christ is building. We are grateful for and proud of our new building. But are we becoming the living stones that Peter talks about so that Christ can make of us the living church that he planned?

Prayer: Father, make of us the living stones you need to construct a living tabernacle, a spiritual house in which your Spirit may dwell. Amen.

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director