Spurgeon Meditations

 

He shall build the temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory.

Zec 6 13

Christ Himself is the builder of His spiritual temple and He has built it on the mountains of His unchangeable affection His omnipotent grace and His infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon's temple so in this; the materials need making ready. There are the "Cedars of Lebanon but they are notframed for the building; they are not cut down, and shaped, andmade into those planks of cedar, whose odoriferous beauty shallmake glad the courts of the Lord's house in Paradise. There arealso the rough stones still in the quarry, they must be hewnthence, and squared. All this is Christ's own work. Eachindividual believer is being prepared, and polished, and madeready for his place in the temple; but Christ's own handperforms the preparation-work. Afflictions cannot sanctify,excepting as they are used by Him to this end. Our prayers andefforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand ofJesus, who fashioneth our hearts aright. As in the building of Solomon's temple, there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house because all was brought perfectly ready for the exact spot itwas to occupy--so is it with the temple which Jesus builds; themaking ready is all done on earth. When we reach heaven, therewill be no sanctifying us there, no squaring us with affliction,no planing us with suffering. No, we must be made meethere--all that Christ will do beforehand; and when He has doneit, we shall be ferried by a loving hand across the stream ofdeath, and brought to the heavenly Jerusalem, to abide aseternal pillars in the temple of our Lord. Beneath His eye and care The edifice shall rise Majestic strong and fair And shine above the skies."


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