Psalm 127:1 (NKJV): Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
Hebrews 3:1-4 (NKJV): Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.
Isaiah 62:5 (NIV): As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
1 Corinthians 3:7-17 (ESV): So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (ESV): For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
PRAISE GOD for His construction, for we are fearfully and wonderfully made, in His image, according to His likeness.
GOD is our Builder, and we are GOD’s fellow workers, GOD’s field, GOD’s buildings, and GOD’s workmanship, created in CHRIST JESUS for good works, which GOD prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. GOD is with us, GOD is in us, and GOD is for us, and this is our ROCK of SALVATION, our CHIEF CORNERSTONE and the FOUNDATION of OUR FAITH: JESUS CHRIST. For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, and all things were created through Him and for Him, the AUTHOR and FINISHER of OUR FAITH.
And JESUS has commissioned us like skilled MASTER BUILDERS to lay foundations while we live on earth, and in Matthew 7:24-27 He says, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
As believers with every choice and action, every word and work, we’re constructing, building on foundations with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw—materials everlasting or materials that perish—and the final test of our workmanship is this, whether it be good or bad, eternal or worthless, gain or loss, when tested, tried, and judged for reward in the fire of our HOLY, RIGHTEOUS, GOOD, LOVING, and JUST GOD: JESUS CHRIST.
