The Temple Building Project

We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago...(Ezra 5:11 NIV)

They were captives in a foreign land. They longed to go back to the home of their ancestors. They wanted to rebuild the house of worship.

The God who had allowed their people to go into captivity, was the same God who also gave them the longing to go home and the longing to worship him in that Temple.

He was the God who made their captor favorably disposed to them; granting them their release, ordering they not be taxed, and underwriting what they needed for their project.

Amazing movements by an amazing God.

Fast forward to 1 Corinthians 3. Verses 16-17 read:

Don't you know that you yourselves are God's templeand God's Spirit lives in you?If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy them;for God's temple is sacred,and you are that temple.

I imagine you and I as modern-day Ezras. We are called to help rebuild the temple of God.

But the temple we are called to build is not made of brick, glass, wood and carpet.

We are called to build the temple of flesh, made up of human beings who are called to worship Almighty God. We are called to encourage, reclaim, and welcome people to house the Spirit of the Great I AM.

We find pieces of the temple wherever we find people who are willing to be used by God.

Who are you talking to today? They are, potentially, pieces of the temple.

Who are you thinking about today? They are, potentially, part of God's temple-in-the-making.

Who frustrates or angers you? Resources God can use for His temple.

God's temple is sacred and you are that temple. (And they might be too!)

Grace & peace