Christ as the Milk and the Stone (1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1Pet 2:2 As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of
the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation, 3
If you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 Coming to Him,
a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and
precious,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Part 1 of 2)
According to verse 4, we need to come to Christ as the living
stone. But what is the way to come to Him? We come to the
Lord by drinking the milk of the word. Have you ever realized
that when you are drinking milk from the word, that is your
coming to the Lord? What is the milk in the word? That milk
is the Lord Himself. Therefore, when we drink the milk, we
come to the Lord. Do you have some other way of coming to the
food you eat? What is your way of coming to the food? Do you
not come to it by eating it? We all come to the food by
eating it. The same is true with respect to coming to Christ
as the living stone. In verse 4 the word "coming" is equal to
drinking. Therefore, when we drink the milk, we come to the
Lord.
We have pointed out that Peter seems to leap from the milk-
Christ to the stone-Christ. This implies that the milk
becomes the stone. How can this be? With us, this is
impossible, but it is not impossible with the Lord, because
He is all-inclusive. As the all-inclusive One, Christ is
milk, and He is also the stone. We are not able to exhaust
all the aspects of Christ. He is the milk, He is the bread,
and now we see that He is the stone.
(Continued tomorrow)
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry, from
Witness Lee, Life-study of First Peter, pp. 138-139. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.
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