May · Day 11
Coming to the Living Stone
Reading
Practical meditation
Peter calls us to come to Christ as to the Living Stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious to God. The Christian life does not begin with a religious form, but with living and personal contact with the Lord. Not with a doctrine about Christ, but with Christ Himself.
Christ is the Living Stone because in Him there is firmness and life. Whoever comes to Him does not find an idea to admire from a distance, but a living Person who sustains, builds, and transmits His own life.
Coming to the Living Stone reorganizes our sense of value. What is precious to God must become precious to us. Not by moral effort, but through continual contact with Him. Whoever remains in Him discovers that the life He communicates is the only foundation that cannot be shaken.
Examine
Have I sought to build my life on Christ, the Living Stone, or on the approval and values of men?
Prayer
Lord, bring me again to Christ, the Living Stone. Turn me away from the approval of men and establish me in your Son as the living foundation. May my spirit touch Christ and recognize as precious what you have chosen. Amen.
Practice
Let us observe where we have sought approval more than foundation. Let us return to Christ in that area and confess that He is our firmness, our value, and our life.