1 Peter 2:7 Meaning For You Who Believe Therefore Is

The same inner principle is either the treasure or the reject depending on the state of the one meeting it. To the awakened, receptive part of a person it is precious, the foundation everything worthy is built upon. To the disobedient faculties, the lower powers that follow their own construction, it is the stone thrown aside as useless. Yet the rejected stone becomes the head of the corner, the very cornerstone that holds the whole structure together, because the principle the outer man discards is the one on which the true self is founded. The builders are the ordinary mental faculties raising the personality by their own design, blind to the one piece that matters. The stone is the fixed spiritual center, the tested foundation-truth of consciousness.

The center the lower mind casts off as worthless turns out to be the single stone the whole inner structure stands on.

Stone: the fixed spiritual center, the tested foundation-truth of consciousness rejected by the outer mind Builders: the ordinary mental faculties raising the personality by their own design Head of the corner: the cornerstone position, the discarded principle proved to be what holds the whole self together

The same rejected part of a person can become either a foundation or an obstacle, and what decides it is the attitude they bring. To the one willing to accept what was cast off, it becomes solid ground to stand on. To the one who keeps refusing it, the very same thing becomes what they keep tripping over.

Nothing in the buried material itself changes. Only the person's stance toward it changes. When someone stops fighting the part of themselves they had disowned and makes room for it, that part stops blocking the path and begins to support it.