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Lily Cathcart
May 07, 2026
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1 Peter 2: 2-10 (NIV-UK)
2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.”7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
“The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”8 and,
“A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Don’t you just hate when computers do that. Changing the rules on you, tripping you up.
When I read passages like this one from 1 Peter telling people they had to change what they were doing and believing in order to be saved and free it makes me think about the ordinary folks. Not the theologians in the temples, not the radicals on the street corners but the ordinary folks who maybe felt like once again someone had moved the goalposts and they were the last to know.
I like to think that God has great love for these people, the ones who are still loading, the ones who haven’t heard the message yet, the ones who may take their whole lifetime and beyond to understand or believe because life is too busy but who keep trying to do the right thing anyway.
Now of course the disciples of Jesus and those who followed after them didn’t have the fullest understanding of time either. Many of them thought they were on a fast ticking clock until Jesus would return to wrap up creation. But just like our predicted loading time, the truth was a little different. I wonder how would they have approached their messages if they knew they had so much more time. I wonder how the ordinary folks would have heard it then. Perhaps nothing would have changed, and of course we will never know, but for us at least we can relax knowing that God is bigger than a ticking clock, God’s love is wider than a deadline and more faithful than a loading bar.
Prayer:
Patient God who takes time
Thank you that you know when to hurry us and when to slow down
Help us to learn to lean in to the changes around us
Help us to lean on you when things seem hard to achieve
Catch us when we inevitably stumble
and set us on the right path again
In your time
Amen
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