The Holy Building of God

In Christ

God’s will and heart’s desire

Is focused

fixed

and firm;

Towards one thing only God has worked

For time’s entire term;

His purpose

from eternity

Has always been the same—

To mingle His own life with man

To glorify His name.

As Architect and Builder too

God works to build His house;

The building is the mingling

Of Bridegroom with His spouse;

As Eve was built from Adam’s rib

The church comes out from Christ;

His wife prepares to marry Him

By mingling in life.

Christ is our entrance into God

Our portal and our way

The Pearl prepared by wounding sand

Redemption made for aye.

God’s building is sustained by Christ

Upheld victoriously;

God’s testimony He uplifts

In His humanity.

Christ also is the Man of bronze

Before the building’s gate

Whom God has judged on our behalf

Most qualified His state.

He knows our real condition and

Has paid our debt with blood.

He measures us

possessing us

To mingle us with God.

When found in Christ

expressing God

We overcome with might

Protected by God’s holy fire

Within us burning bright!

The Triune God in Christ will be

The glory at the heart

Of all we are and all we do

Transparency our part.

The element that builds the church

That constitutes the saints

Is Christ the resurrected One

The Blessing earth awaits!

The Spirit of reality

Infuses us with Christ!

We gain Him through our mingling

With resurrection life!

This mingling in glory is

The New Jerusalem

The Holy City

God’s elect

Yea

God built into man!

As God’s expression

we’ll be there

Inwrought with Christ the Son

Co-kings with Him

those crowned with life

Matured and built as one!