The thing is, he didn’t even ask you to build him the house.
You asked if you could build him the place in the light of all he did for you. He did a lot as well to be fair. Protected you, provided for you, offered you a structure in which you could prosper, even showed up to help you defeat your enemies when the going got tough. When you were at a place of peak economic and political peace, you asked to build him a special house. You asked. He allowed it.
When you finished the thing, you made such a big deal of doing it for him that you wanted him to show up and give it his fullest blessing. He was happy to oblige and let it be a key point of reference for the relationship you had with him.
Tragically the treatment of that building would act as an indication of the way the relationship was valued. Over the years its use would be distorted and profaned by others coming to use it for their own end. Such was the abuse of the place that it was demolished, just around the same time as you were taken away from this land.
Now, in an amazing act of mercy you have been restored to the land. Restored by the same one you discarded. His house, that central point representing that relationship, lies in ruins.
Whose house are you going to prioritise – yours or his?
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
Life With CD 