Sometimes, we talk about the memories of an old house or muse on what we could learn if halls had ears and walls had eyes. But we know that buildings are not alive. But there is a house that Scripture says is alive. Or, more specifically, the materials of this house are alive.
First Peter 2:4-5 reads, “As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
The church is a living house. Not the building we assemble at—but the body of believers who make up the church—they are described as the temple of God in the New Covenant—a house made of living stones that shares and glorifies the goodness of God. What a privilege it is to be a living stone in the house of God!