Stopping to Think

4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 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. 6  For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 7  So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8  and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 9  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you o ut of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 O nce you were not a people, b...

Psalm 42 (ESV) As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants  my soul for you, O God.   My soul thirsts for God, for  the living God. When shall I come and  appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”   These things I remember, as I  pour out my soul: how I would go  with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you  in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation   6  and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I  remember you from the land of Jordan and of  Hermon, from Mount Mizar.   Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your  waves have gone over me.   By day the  Lor...