Rocks for Christ

1 Peter 2:4-5

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, and holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Let us look on the beautiful fire place, made by rock mason. We are all stones and Jesus is the worker. Laying rocks is different from laying bricks. Bricks have the same size and shape. Rocks can be sharp, smooth, different shapes and sizes. So, Jesus really has a job to put us together. He knows how to do it. There is a small place where only small rock would fit in. There is a place where you need a brick rock with a strange shape, the rock that would be able to hold others. Both big rock and small stone need each other.

Therefore, in the scripture Peter tells us that we are all live stones, but we must offer sacrifice. Peter didn’t say that we must endure weakness, or sickness, or poverty. No, he said that we must offer spiritual sacrifice.

The number one spiritual sacrifice is to choose love.

I am a stone and your rough edges go against me, I don’t like it, but if I choose love – your rough edges will sharpen me and strengthen me.

Now let’s say I am a big stone, a rock that holds others. But if I choose not to walk in love towards the small stone beside me, then whatever I hold will fall apart, because the small stone filled the gap.

Love is so to speak a divine mortar that holds all of us together. When we pray for people and when we stand for them in prayer, this is our spiritual sacrifice. They might not answer your phone calls, they might say that they don’t forgive you, they might refuse to see you, they might refuse to admit they hurt you and cause you harm, but nobody, please hear me: nobody can stand against Divinely Orchestrated Tool, called prayer. Nobody could, nobody can and nobody will be able to.

This is what Jesus taught us. He said pray for your enemies, pray for those who hurt you. Pray for those whom you hurt! Pray, because thus doing, you are enabling God to go and lay that rock. You are setting up a Divine Appointment between God and that person.

Pray and love that person, even when you are aggravated, even when you don’t want to pray. That is exactly the moment of victory. The moment of sacrifice. Jesus prayed on the cross, He said: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

I will pray. I will lift them up in prayer to My Father. There are people, whom I brought pain, hurt their feelings. I will pray for them. I will also pray for those, who brought pain to me, who misused me and trashed me.

I will pray and offer spiritual sacrifice, because I love God and I know that praying like this, I am performing His Love – AGAPE. This kind of Love, He will never ignore!