Build Your Temple

Isaiah 28:16-17


“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation,
A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation;
Whoever believes will not act hastily.
¹⁷ Also I will make justice the measuring line,
And righteousness the plummet;
The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
And the waters will overflow the hiding place."


Jesus our Rock, who can come against Him?  Verse 16 says, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, (a sure foundation); Whoever believes will not act hastily."  The work has been done, and only those who build and stand on the Rock of salvation will conquer.  The Lord says, whoever believes these words, will not act hastily.  Slow down family, life is what God has given us, we creatures made from dust.  Though, until we internalize this, and believe in our hearts, that there is more to life than just shopping, eating, complaining, and warring, we will remain feeding our flesh and die miserably.  God, came to give life and life more abundantly.  He says, He became poor, that we might become rich.  The dream, plan, and execution, was thought of way before earth began, and God says, it will not fail.  He says, though heaven and earth may pass away, but by no means will His word.  Father God, sent in reinforcement, when He sent His precious Son down, to disarm satan and rule His Kingdom.  But to get our dreams started, we must delight in this achievement, and walk and talk, like it has been done.  We've been given heaven on earth, and it's time to live like it.  God says, whatever we bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, and whatever we loose on earth, will be loosed from heaven.  We are killing ourselves, with our untrained tongues and actions.  Graciousness, politeness, and thoughtfulness, plays no part in society sincerely.  Verse 17 says, "Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place."  We must live for righteousness and justice, for every human being, and express it in our everyday walk.  Build your temple.


(Ephesians 2:19-22)  "Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."


Blessings to all who sacrifice themselves for the Chief Cornerstone,


Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.