LIVING STONES
"And
you are living stones that God is building into His spiritual temple." (1
Peter 2:5a)
Slowly,
all through the universe, that temple
of God is being
built. Wherever, in any world, a soul,
by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into
the growing walls, a living stone. When,
in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation,
you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him
the chance to give Himself to you, your life -- a living stone -- is taken up
and set into that growing wall.
Wherever
souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways,
there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of
the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as
it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to
let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
--
Phillips Brooks in The Law of Growth
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