Building Temples

At that time you were without Christ, you did not belong to the community of Israel,  the covenants of God and his promises were not for you;  you had no hope and were without God in this world.  But now, in Christ Jesus and by his blood, you who were once far off have come near.

For Christ is our peace, he who has made the two peoples one, destroying in his own flesh the wall--the hatred--which separated us.  He abolished the Law with its commands and precepts.  He made peace in uniting the two peoples in him, creating out of the two one New Man.  He destroyed hatred and reconciled us both to God through the cross, making the two one body.

He came to proclaim peace; peace to you who were far off, peace to the Jews who were near.  Through him we--the two peoples--approach the Father in one Spirit.

Now you are no longer strangers or guests, but fellow citizens of the holy people:  you are of the household of God.  You are the house whose foundations are the apostles and prophets, and whose cornerstones is Christ Jesus.  In him the whole structure is joined together and rises to be a holy temple in the Lord.  In him you too are being built to become the spiritual sanctuary of God.

Ephesians 2:12-22

"Jesus, You are my firm foundation!  Help me to build my life to become a worthy oblation to God."

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