Christ as the Milk and the Stone (2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~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 2 of 2)
We need more experience of Christ as the milk and the stone.
In the morning we should drink Christ as milk from the Word.
Then during the day the process of transformation should take
place within us. In the evening we should come to the church
meetings and fellowship with the saints. This is building.
Here we see that in the morning Christ is milk, and in the
evening He becomes the stone. During the day the milk does a
transforming work within us to produce a stone.
Those who do not experience Christ as milk may like to be
scattered or independent. The elders may visit them and
encourage them to come to the meetings. However, these saints
do not want to attend the meetings. One such brother once
said, "As long as certain persons are in the meeting, I do not
want to attend. I don't want to see their faces. I don't like
to attend the meetings simply because they are present." But
after a time the Lord did something in this case. This brother
repented of his attitude toward the particular ones involved.
Then he began to have a desire to drink the milk of the word.
Because of his drinking the milk, he longed to come to the
church meetings. Eventually he was fully reconciled with the
saints for the sake of the building.
First the Lord is milk to nourish us. Through the nourishment
in the milk of the word, transformation takes place. Then we
have the building, where the Lord Himself is the stone. This
is the reason that in chapter two we first have the milk and
then the stone.
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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. 139-140. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.
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