Resurrection Life In a World of Suffering: A 6-Day DevotionalSample

If we belong to the Lord Jesus, then we belong to each other. Jesus is the living stone, and we too are like living stones being built together into a spiritual house. We have a group identity and purpose that are bound up in him. There’s a second implication of the truth that Jesus is the living stone: we are a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices (v. 5). Again the group dimension is deliberate. We are a holy priesthood (that’s our collective identity), and our purpose in the world is to offer spiritual sacrifices to God through the Lord Jesus. —Carrie Sandom