This world is a quarry where living stones are being shaped, forged and fitted for being built up together to become the city of our God, the New Jerusalem. Do you know that when Soloman's temple was built that not a sound was heard in the temple area? All the fitting was done elsewhere and then brought to the building site.
Every hammer blow of suffering, every time the chizel meets the stone we are being shaped into the same image as Christ. We are the shadow but He is the substance.
Every bit of suffering is God carving His Name into us.
We come and go, in the world but not of the world, make mistakes and get up and carry on. But once placed as part of the New Jerusalem we will remain forevermore.
Every day we see loved ones being called up from being jars of clay that temple Him within, to become living stones unhewn by human hands to help form the building of our heavenly dwelling, His Bride.
This is what I find peace in
1 Kings 6:7
In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
That's why Peter could say "Count it all joy as we share in His suffering"In building the temple, only blocks dressed at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool was heard at the temple site while it was being built.
Every hammer blow of suffering, every time the chizel meets the stone we are being shaped into the same image as Christ. We are the shadow but He is the substance.
1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
Every bit of suffering is God carving His Name into us.
We come and go, in the world but not of the world, make mistakes and get up and carry on. But once placed as part of the New Jerusalem we will remain forevermore.
John 10:9
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Every day we see loved ones being called up from being jars of clay that temple Him within, to become living stones unhewn by human hands to help form the building of our heavenly dwelling, His Bride.
Ephesians 2:19-22
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
This is what I find peace in