1 Peter 2:4 · World English Bible
1 Peter 2:4 Meaning Coming to Him
coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
What does 1 Peter 2:4 mean?
The living stone is a person's own imagination, the very power men set aside as worthless while it is in fact the one God chooses. To come to it is to turn toward the awareness of being within, the I AM that was rejected because it seemed too plain and too near to be divine.
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The living stone is a person's own imagination, the very power men set aside as worthless while it is in fact the one God chooses. To come to it is to turn toward the awareness of being within, the I AM that was rejected because it seemed too plain and too near to be divine. What the world throws away as merely mental is the rock that begets and the God that gives birth, now grown personal and close.
The stone is called living because it is not dead matter but the creative source itself, waiting to be recognized. Men disallow the precious thing. A person spends years treating his own imagining as nothing. When he comes to it as the chosen foundation, he arrives at the God he had been overlooking in himself.
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Live 1 Peter 2:4 today
- Treat one plain act of imagining today as the most serious thing you do, not as daydreaming. Give it the same respect you give a meeting on your calendar.
- When someone brushes off an inner hope of theirs as silly, do not join in laughing it off. Take it seriously out loud and let them hear how it sounds when it is not dismissed.
- When a situation looks too big for anything as simple as a felt inner picture, go there anyway before you go anywhere else. The thing you keep skipping over as too small is the foundation.
What in me have I been treating as worthless, that may be the one thing holding everything up?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
What is highest often looks plain and low, so people pass it by while searching for something impressive. The useful thing was the one they thought worthless.
Zen
A student kept asking for the secret teaching and was finally told that his everyday mind is it. What seemed too ordinary to be sacred was the whole of it.
Sufism · Rumi
Rumi wrote of a man who traveled the world for treasure and found it buried under his own house. He had stood on it every day of the search.
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