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“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my
mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my
soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You,
when I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes
have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were
all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet
there was not one of them. How precious also are Your
thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!”

Notice in verse 21 you have the expression, “It is growing into a
holy temple.” It’s the same idea of the expression in verse 22,
“You are built together into a dwelling of God through the
Spirit.” Of course, there’s a mixed metaphor here. It’s the same
one used by the apostle Peter in 1 Peter 2:5,

“You, also, are living stones being built on into a spiritual
house; a people for God’s own possession.”

Usually when you think of the construction of a building, you think
of inanimate things. Dead boards, glass, shingles, bricks, and
stones. Everything is dead.

But this building is like no other. It’s God’s house! This is the
dwelling of God in the Spirit. His temple is not built with dead
bricks. It may seem a little creepy, but visualize this in your mind.
It is built with living stones. An earthly building is the sum of all its
pieces. A door, window, floor or wall, is not a house. If you put
them all together, you’ll end up with a house. That’s not how the
Church is built. Each stone is alive, and each stone is a “mini-
temple”. God dwells in that stone and He’s going to dwell in the
whole temple. Each individual Christian is a foretaste of what the
whole thing will be like, when it’s finished. Each Christian’s body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit.