Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist,” Says the Lord. “But on this one will I look: On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, And who trembles at My word.
Isaiah 66:1-2

It has been said that there are only two religions: the one based on what man does, and the one based on what God has done.

There is no end to what man will do in hopes of garnering God’s favor, but what can finite man possibly hope to build for God who is infinite? What man-made religious domicile can house the God in whose hand the universe comfortably fits? After all, all that we have and are, are His handiwork in the first place.

The Lord finds no completion in what we may do for Him, but His holy, yet gracious eye is pleased to rest on those who acknowledge and are ashamed of their spiritual bankruptcy, and who quake before His Word.

Let us utterly abandon any and all delusions about what we are or what we may do for God. Let us instead rest in what God in Christ has done for us. Let us rejoice that His benevolent eye eternally rests on all who trust in Jesus, the Word of God made flesh.