“And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
That is a verse in Zechariah 4. We are perhaps not as familiar with it as we are with the one that precedes it. “Not by might nor by power, but by My spirit, says the LORD of hosts.” [Zechariah 4:6-7 HCSB]
The captivity of the Jews in Babylon had come to an end after 70 years and a remnant was returning to their homeland only to find the temple had been destroyed and much of the land was rubble. God gave Zechariah a series of visions to reassure this remnant that He was with them. The temple would be rebuilt. God would once again dwell with His people.
God put a man named Zerubbabel in charge. The foundation would be laid and the building completed. It would not be done by human strength or power, but in the power of God’s Spirit. And when they brought out the capstone to signal the house of God was complete, the song they would cry would be, “Grace, Grace to it!” It would all be accomplished, from foundation to roof, from room to room, from depths to heights and widths through God’s marvelous grace.
The Scriptures remind us that now by faith we are the temple of the Living God. He no longer dwells in houses made with brick, but in His children who have come back to Him by faith through the salvation obtained by Christ at Calvary. This is all accomplished by God’s marvelous grace. The same thing that Paul claimed is our claim also, “But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective.” [1 Cor 15:10 HCSB]
There is coming a time when we shall stand in the presence of our God. One by one the capstones of our lives will be raised, and the song each one of us will sing is, “Grace, Grace to it!”
It’s all because of God’s amazing grace.
