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.
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.
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
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.