Re: Verse reading–1 Peter 1:13-2:10 (Day Three)
“You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house.” Jesus gave Simon the nickname “Rock”—Peter. For a time, it seemed as though Peter attempted to live up to what he thought the name signified: Tough, hard, unwavering, unshakable. He was none of those things, no matter how hard he tried. It took years of training with Jesus—not trying, but training—to teach him that God was not building a monument out of Peter’s life, but a community. In this community, the raw materials are the lives of all of us—all “rocks” that Jesus will use when as we leave behind our aspirations to “monument-hood”, and instead accept the weathered beauty that comes as the Lord leads us through difficulty and joy in friendship with him and with one another.
