Wherever I have gone with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel, which I commanded to shepherd My people, saying 'Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?'"'This is one of those verses that really puts God's priorities in perspective for me. He is the creator and ruler of all that has ever been created, and all that ever will be known. He has the right to every cubic nanometer of the cosmos, to do with as He pleases. He could have however amazing a temple He chooses. He could arrange all the galaxies in the universe, and all the systems in those galaxies, to each spell out "God made this. It is his."
But he doesn't. He's perfectly content for his point of temporal manifestation to be around a metal-covered box, kept inside a tent where no one sees it. In the modern context, He doesn't care about a huge, ornate building, where everyone can come in a gawk. He cares about how we connect with Him, not where we do it, or what the connection location looks like. Such things will disappear, but our connection to Him will last forever. Try to have a good connection point, one that is not anchored in this world in any way.
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