Being Built

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
BEING BUILT

Eph 2:21-22
21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. NIV
I am being fit together with other believers into a holy temple in the Lord. This is an amazing construction project. A project designed and orchestrated by God. A project in which not only is he the architect, the city planner, the general contractor, the foreman, but also the entire labor crew. I am simply just on living stone as Peter would state it. I cannot take any credit for the place within the temple. I cannot have any pride as to how God uses me within his construction project. I can only function as he has designed me. I can only be the stone he made. I realize how small and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of things went I walk into a place like the National Cathedral and see how many stones there are and how small each one is in compared to the whole building. The building could survive without one or more of certain stones. Yet the temple God is building into a holy temple needs to have all the stones in place doing that which there were designed to do. I must always be about that which God has designed me for. If I leave a hole, the whole is not as he designed it. I must admit to myself, at times I do not feel much like the stone I am supposed to be. I still need more shaping by God. I still need more edges smoothed out. And this is the other part I simple have to step back in awe. God’s Spirit is dwelling within this place. Does he step back from time to time to admire his workmanship? Am I worthy of him thinking what a great job he is doing? I know I am in the place within the temple he wants me to be, but am I functioning well? I don’t really care how I look, but I do care how I function. Some stones are hidden in corners or under places in what seem to be in unimportant places, but each stone is as important as the other in his temple. As for me I do what to be where he has placed me and work as he has designed me to, whatever that is.