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In our morning times lately… of enjoying the sunrise along with the Lord's presence, Reed and I are repeatedly led to read about King David preparing to build God a house, in 1Chronicles 17:1... "After David was settled in his palace he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here am I, living in a palace of cedar while the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under a tent."

That night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, "Go and tell my servant David..." "You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in....wherever I have moved with the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders whom I commanded to shepherd my people, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"  "I declare to you that the Lord will build a house for you." Then I remembered something about a verse that said that we, as true, obedient believers are like living   stones, and are being built up into a spiritual house.

In 1 Peter, 2:4 it is written, “As you come to Him, the living Stone… rejected  by men but chosen by God and precious to Him, 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…”

Paul wrote in Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, which is your reasonable service” Rom12:1

To present ourselves as a  living sacrifice is certainly reasonable … not only in light of what a price was paid for us… but for the unspeakable privilege of being a holy priesthood, and being built into a spiritual house!

So what must we do… go to every expense to build majestic earthly houses for God?  Why is it written  in Psalm 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain”?  Man can’t house God, can he?...  the God who built the entire universe and all that’s in it?  Man builds houses and calls them churches, and calls those churches the Lord’s house, and we are expected to visit them on ‘the Lord’s day’… but truthfully, God just wants us to be His house.  He wants to live in us!  And He wants us to be the Living Stones that He uses to build an eternal house, and Jesus Christ His Son is the cornerstone of that eternal house.