God Calls You the Building of God

Metaphor: Building of God

Concept: Although we have a part in God’s work he is the Architect and the one who should get the credit.
1 Cor 3:9; For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; you are God's garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, [you are] God's building.  [Isa 61:3.] AMP

This note from Adam Clarke's Commentary says it well. You are God's building.-You are not only the field which God cultivates, but you are the house which God builds, and in which he intends to dwell. As no man in viewing a fine building extols the quarryman that dug up the stones, the hewer that cut and squared them, the mason that placed them in the wall, the woodman that bowed down the timber, the carpenter that squared and jointed it, etc., but the architect who planned it, and under whose direction the whole work was accomplished; so no man should consider Paul, or Apollos, or Peter, anything, but as persons employed by the great Architect to form a building which is to become a habitation of himself through the Spirit, and the design of which is entirely his own. 

Today, we should be diligent in doing our part to please God and to be doing the work that advances His kingdom, but He alone gets the credit. He provides the laborers, resources and the plan and makes it all possible.

Artwork: Walking in the Light