Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

Hebrews 3:1-6

The house of God are the people of God. Those who trust in His Son and call upon Him for salvation are the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19). Those who are filled with His Spirit “as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:5). In order to be a worker on His house, a laborer in His field, we must be a preacher, a proclaimer, of His gospel.

And He came and preached peace to you who were far away, and peace to those who were near; for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:17-22

The purpose of my hands is to be engaged in the work of the Lord. As a part of His house my hands are to be a part of the repairing and restoring and strengthening of the house of God. If the house of God is built by the living stones of people who are alive with the Spirit of God, then the only way I can lay a brick is to share the truth of the gospel. The only way I can repair, restore, and strengthen a stone is to minister to a living heart that has been laid in the constructing of His house.

The bottom line is that if I am to be a worker of the Lord then I must be engaged with people. I must be willing to proclaim the hope of the gospel of Christ. I must be willing to go out and gather the stones that the Lord Himself will breathe life into and cause to call out His praise. I must be willing to get down on my knees in the muck of the lives of broken people and apply the mortar and grout of the Word of God that binds us to each other and to Him. I must be willing to search for the cracks and fill them with the truth of His love through the power of His Spirt that seals us for all eternity to His house.

Oh, let us be engaged in the work.

Let us be laborers.

Let us remember that Jesus died for people.

Let us remember that this world is not our home. We are not to be consumed with laboring for the things of this world, but for the eternal souls of those created in the image of God. We are to remember that better is one day in His courts, in His house, than a thousand elsewhere. Our hope, our confidence, is in Him whose house we are if we hold fast firm until the end. Let us hold fast. Let us stay focused on our calling and on our work and keep laboring, one stone at a time, brick by brick, until the builder of the house, our God, says that it is complete.

Let us not lose heart in doing good, but remember that in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

Galatians 6:9

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