January 23, 2026
— Charles H. Spurgeon · Source: Morning and Evening, March 23 (Evening)
Ephesians 2:19–22 So you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household. You are being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone, in whom the rooms are joined and held together, growing into the Lord’s holy temple. In him you too are being built together into a dwelling place where God dwells by the Holy Spirit.
I often thought my efforts were nothing more than an insignificant brick, small, hidden, and easily overlooked. But Ephesians reminds me that I am no longer an outsider, but a member of God's household, a part of His work placed within Himself. The foundation is not mine, nor is the design mine; Christ is the cornerstone. As I stand quietly in His chosen place, the seemingly slow process is actually becoming the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for not measuring my worth according to my feelings, but for placing me according to your eternal plan. Deliver me from my restlessness and comparisons, and enable me to willingly stand in the place you have prepared for me. Whether seen or unseen, may I be firmly connected to Christ, the cornerstone, and let my life and service become the temple where you dwell. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.