A Seed is Sown, Grows, Becomes Stone for Building
The Bible progresses from plants in the garden of Eden to precious materials built together to form New Jerusalem. A condensation of this progression is in 1 Peter 1:23 to 2:6.
in 1 Peter 1:23 says we have been “regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.” The Lord Jesus spoke of sowing this seed in Matthew 13.
First Peter 2:2 encourages us to “long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation.” The seed in us needs nourishment so that it may grow. And by taking this milk we can taste “that the Lord is good” (2:3).
First Peter 2:4-6 advances to the Lord, “a living stone…with God chosen and precious.” Then we also, always coming to the Lord for His rich supply, “as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house.”
Here Peter changed his metaphor from a seed, which is of the vegetable life (1:23-24), to a stone, which is of the minerals. The seed is for life-planting; the stone is for building (v. 5)….As life to us, Christ is the seed; for God’s building, He is the stone. After receiving Him as the seed of life, we need to grow that we may experience Him as the stone living in us.*
The living stones are for God’s living house which grows to become New Jerusalem. The Lord Jesus as the living foundation and cornerstone is “chosen and precious” and the whole of New Jerusalem is precious to God.
* A portion of footnote 1 on 1 Peter 2:4 in the Recovery Version Bible, published and © by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim CA, 2003.
Posted by Don on February 16, 2022
