Do you know what you are called to? Do you know you are called at all? Many people do not know they are called. They blindly walk through life without direction or simply going whatever way they want to go. They may become successful in this life, but do not know true success.
We are called to be a living stone. For Jesus is called the chief cornerstone. We are to be living stones who are put together to build the spiritual house of God per his plan. Sometimes, we must be reminded of our calling. That we are to become the spiritual house, the church.
We also must remember that God is only building one spiritual house. Or, as Jesus states in John 10:16, one flock. All believers in Jesus falls under one Lord. Or, as Jesus states in John 10:16, one shepherd. Far too often we all differences of opinion to divide us. The division can grow to a point of despising fellow believers. This is not God’s doing and it breaks his heart.
For if we are to be a holy priesthood, we must follow Jesus rather than our personal preferences. We must make spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God. They are acceptable, if we are doing his work in the name of Jesus Christ. But it must be his work, not our work. The two are often not the same. If our focus is not on Jesus and following Him, we are straying away from God. We are not being a living stone that is being built into a spiritual house.
I pray we know we are being called by God. I pray we understand that we are being built into a spiritual house. I pray each one of us are willing to offer spiritual sacrifices to be a holy priesthood. You are called by God. You are being built into a spiritual house. Offer spiritual sacrifices. Be part of the holy priesthood.
1 Peter 2:4-5 Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Marty Pressey 