A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
November 28🌷🌷
“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:22).
In Hebrews chapter three, we see how we enter into a spiritual partnership with the Lord Jesus Christ by receiving His salvation. Not only are our sins forgiven and we receive a place in heaven, but we also become spiritual partners with Him in all things. This partnership is a unique partnership. In other places in the Bible we are called God’s co-workers, and partners (I Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1). That privilege is not given to the angels. But we believers who are purchased by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ have become His partners, so that we may build for Him, His everlasting habitation. This is a great mystery. God is so great that even the heaven and its fulness cannot contain Him. And yet He wants us, human beings, to build a sanctuary or a dwelling place for Him. With that purpose He brought His people from Egypt. He performed many miracles for them. But with all that He was not living among them. He is a mighty God. He said, “…let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them” (Exo. 25:8).
The Holy Spirit has given different names to the House of God like sanctuary, God’s dwelling place, God’s temple, and spiritual house. The mystery is, for such an everlasting habitation, God needs you and me. However weak and foolish we may be, God wants us for such a house. When a wealthy man builds a house, he uses very costly material. When a king builds his palace, he uses the best material gathered from different parts of the world. But the Lord Jesus Christ chooses a filthy rag, an unclean thing and a faded leaf to build God’s House. That was our condition when we came to Him. But because we were purchased by Him, we became so precious to Him. And the mystery is that every one of us however foolish and weak, can become a part of His everlasting habitation. God is love. In His habitation He pours out His love.
Just as a loving father wants to pour his love on his children, God’s love is shed abroad in our hearts. A servant may be good and faithful. But the love which is shown to the wife and children is not shown towards the servant. So God’s love is for those who are bought by the Lord Jesus Christ. God wants an everlasting dwelling place for Him. The apostle calls us God’s dwelling place or God’s habitation. We are built up to be God’s habitation, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ” (1 Pet. 2:5).
