1 Peter 2: 4-5
Come to him, a living stone, though
rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and like living
stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house,
to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.
That is the point, is it not? Come to Jesus. What is it that we are coming to? Are we coming to a judgmental Jesus who does
not like homosexuals, Muslims, Liberals, the media, the annoying, or anyone
else that we can condemn from the Bible? Makes you wonder what else we might get
condemned for from Scripture.
The Judgmental Jesus might just
condemn us for failing to feed the hungry, not giving the thirsty something to
drink, maybe for failing to welcome the stranger (immigrant…), failing to
clothe the naked (or any without), taking care of the sick (while some still
fight Obamacare…), or for failing to
visit someone in prison (chances are we know somebody, we imprison more of our
own than just about any nation on the planet, except for, like, North
Korea). Do we want to come to this guy?
Peter was there when Jesus started
the conversation, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest.” These would be the
95%’ers, I think, not the top 5 % who control 95% of the wealth of the
nation. They are rich enough to have
rest on their own. Except for something
else Jesus talked about, in a parable.
He talked about this rich guy whose
barns were overstuffed. So he was going
to pull them down and build bigger ones, but the Lord said his time on earth
was up that very night (HE WAS GOING TO DIE).
Makes me think of a contest I heard about once, the one who dies with
the most toys wins. Actually, his or her
heirs win.
So come to Him, says Peter. Jesus is well worth it.
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