Living Stones
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? “Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance; and do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham.”
Only God can raise up a stone. A stone cannot raise up itself.
1 Peter 2:4, 5
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Only God can raise up you and me. We cannot raise up ourselves.
Only God can build up you and me into living stones. We cannot build up ourselves.
So…
Has God raised up you?
Has God built up you into a living stone?
