He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  For you were straying like sheep but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. I Peter 2:24-25

Peter understood foundations because Jesus pointed him toward a firm footing when He famously renamed him. His name had been Simon, but Jesus named him Peter, which means rock. Though Peter got off to a rocky start, questioning Jesus, cutting off the ear of a soldier, and denying Jesus three times, he would later become a rock for the early church and write the letters we’re reading today. 

… we are built on the bedrock of life, and He is Jesus. It was with great personal emotion, in 1 Peter chapter 2, when Peter referred to Christians as living stones being built into a spiritual house. A house with Jesus as the cornerstone. A cornerstone is the stone chosen to bring alignment and foundation to every other part of the house. This was Peter’s way of saying we are built on the bedrock of life, and He is Jesus. We have a different foundation. Others may not see it or understand it. They may even reject it. Our foundation is a rock more fiery than our earth’s core, deeper than our fleshly desires, more powerful than our world’s rulers, and stronger than our most unrelenting struggles. 

As you read 1 Peter chapter 2, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you the bedrock of your life. Ask these questions: Do I look to culture and government to make the world right, or do I look to Jesus and His Church? Do I try to control situations, or do I seek God with the good works and deep trust He asks for? When people treat me unjustly, do I respond with love? When I suffer, do I patiently trust God, or do I try to find my own way?

Christ’s death was designed not only for an example of patience under sufferings, but he bore our sins; he bore the punishment of them, and thereby satisfied Divine justice. Hereby he takes them away from us. The fruits of Christ’s sufferings are the death of sin, and a new holy life of righteousness; for both which we have an example, and powerful motives, and ability to perform also, from the death and resurrection of Christ. And our justification; Christ was bruised and crucified as a sacrifice for our sins, and by his stripes the diseases of our souls are cured. Here is man’s sin; he goes astray; it is his own act. His misery; he goes astray from the pasture, from the Shepherd, and from the flock, and so exposes himself to dangers without number. Here is the recovery by conversion; they are now returned as the effect of Divine grace. This return is, from all their errors and wanderings, to Christ. Sinners, before their conversion, are always going astray; their life is a continued error. -Bible Hub

 Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ’s wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.- Matthew Henry