You Are Living Stones

“As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” – 2 Peter 2:4,5 Over the last few days, I’ve been emphasizing a foundational truth: the Spirit doesn’t live in structures of glass and steel—He lives in you. For the Jewish people, losing their temple was an incomprehensible grief, far deeper than anything felt when a place like the Crystal Cathedral closed its doors. There was only one place to meet God, one sacred center where His people gathered. So when these early Jewish believers wandered and passed by the gleaming temples of other nations, a quiet, painful envy stirred within them.  We look at ancient temples today and admire their beauty, but in their prime, they