Daily Devotion

“If the stones were to speak, they could tell of their breaker, how he took them from the quarry, and made them fit for the temple, and cannot we tell of our glorious Breaker, who broke our hearts with the hammer of his word, that he might build us into his temple? If the stones should cry out they would magnify their builder, who polished them and fashioned them after the similitude of a palace; and shall not we talk of our Architect and Builder, who has put us in our place in the temple of the living God?”

Charles H. Spurgeon · Morning and Evening, March 23 (Evening)

Scripture

Ephesians 2:19–22 So you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household. You are being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone, in whom the rooms are joined and held together, growing into the Lord’s holy temple. In him you too are being built together into a dwelling place where God dwells by the Holy Spirit.

Reflection

I often thought my efforts were nothing more than an insignificant brick, small, hidden, and easily overlooked. But Ephesians reminds me that I am no longer an outsider, but a member of God's household, a part of His work placed within Himself. The foundation is not mine, nor is the design mine; Christ is the cornerstone. As I stand quietly in His chosen place, the seemingly slow process is actually becoming the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.