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You always know when you are in the presence of spiritual worth. No amount of theorizing about the Lord's return, for example, will take the place of a life that has been daily lived looking for Him. There is no escaping this difference, and no substitute for the real thing. Alas, some of us are so unlike our words that it might be better if we said less about spiritual things. Do not wonder, then, at God's concern for the materials of His house. Imitation jewelry may have a certain beauty, but what woman who has once possessed the real thing would give it another thought?
All flesh, all mere feelings, all that is essentially of man, is grass and must vanish away. What is of Christ, the gold, the silver, the costly stones, these alone are eternal, incorruptible, imperishable. It is this lasting character of God's Church that must now claim our attention. Eternal in the Heavens It is in the later writings of the apostle Paul, and more especially in his Epistle to the Ephesians, that the eternal nature of the Church of Christ is given the greatest prominence. As the House, as the Body, as the Bride of Christ, as the people of God, the Church is a special theme of Ephesians.
The heavy metals, the gold of the divine character and glory, the silver of His redemptive work: these are the materials He prizes. Not merely what we preach, please note, but what we are, weighs with God; not doctrine, but the character of Christ wrought out in us by God's orderings, by God's testings, by the Spirit's patient workings. Work that is of God is work that has been to the Cross. When our work has been that way, we can rest assured that it will in the end survive the fire. Not, "Where is the need most evident?