You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.