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As our maker, He is to be worshipped. With those who have been born of the Spirit there a dual purpose for His creating them. The act of a new creation has brought us into fellowship with the Lord and we can gladly come, kneeling down before Him to worship the One who has given us eternal life. Ps. 95:6.
There is a positive element of the Messianic to be found in this One who is the Maker. The LORD, Jehovah, as the Holy One of Israel introduced the person whom He calls the Maker. Isa. 45:11 He who bears the exact image and likeness of the invisible God was the moving force of creation. As the Logos, the Word He was involved in ever thing which was and ever shall be created. There is nothing in existence, nor yet to be created, whether it is visible of invisible, earthly or heavenly but what it came into being by Him. All were created by Him and for Him. What a tremendous power and authority the Father gave to His Son. All of that which has been created is for His good pleasure. The ultimate goal being His Bride, His church redeemed and perfected by the living Word. Col. 1:16 He is eternal, supreme, superior, for He was before all things which were created. He is the stabilizing force of the universe. He is the power which maintains every star and every galaxy in its orbit. He is the order, the stabilization which maintains all of creation. Col. 1:17.
Abraham, the man of faith, started on a journey instigated by the Lord. He had not established a positive plan for His trip but by the revelation of the Lord he understood that there was a city whose builder and maker was God. He left Ur with a mind set to find that city. Heb. 11:10 His search would not lead him to any particular city, built by men, which would satisfy the desire of his heart to find the city of the Lord. He was seeking that which was built by the Lord. A city which would be eternal and spiritual.
In all actuality, the only real, true city, for the Maker, the Builder is none other than the Lord. He has constructed all things which exist and which are yet to come. Heb. 3:4.
He has not yet finished His eternal project. The Lord Jesus is noted to be a Son, over His own house, whose house are we. Heb. 3:6 He is building a house, a church, which is the household of faith and is to be His family. Jesus called the temple His Father’s house. John 2:16 It was not intended to be that which is everlasting. The eternal is the New Jerusalem, The New Testament church. In developing a family, there must be two, a male and a female. Thus a family is built. The real, the spiritual, the heavenly Jerusalem is stated to be the mother of us all.Gal. 4:26.