In Psalms, chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, verse one, as labor to build God’s house on earth, we must make sure we build it according to His pattern and by His Spirit, not according to mere human ideas, plans, and efforts, as in Exodus twenty-five, verse nine. God gives instructions concerning His house, like the Tabernacle. The historical, spiritual, and typological significance must be what the Bible says. The Tabernacle was a “sanctuary,” as, in verse eight, a place set apart for the Lord to dwell among and meet with His people. In verse forty of Exodus twenty-five, “And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount.”
In Acts seven, verse forty-four of the New Testament, God has always had a divine pattern for His people to follow. The examples of these verses from the Old and New Testament are evidence of the Lord instructing His servants from the beginning to every detail. The theme verse under The Vanity of Work without God expresses the egotistical and aims to please the flesh and nothing else. “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity,” as in Ecclesiastes one, verse two, and repeated in chapter twelve, verse eight, is dominantly the theme of this book. All our activities on earth are meaningless and purposeless when carried out apart from God’s will, His fellowship, and His loving activity.
Building a house takes time. There are no shortcuts to something in anticipation of being great. Therefore, if God builds the house, He will do it accordingly so that it will stand firm, and nothing will be able to break it down. Like believers, God builds them spiritually as they seek Him daily in His Word and prayer, where nothing can break them down.