Who builds the house?

Today I was reading in 1 Chronicles 25-29 and I read about David preparing the materials for the building of the temple. It reminded me of the account in 2 Samuel 7 when David want to build the temple himself. Instead he is told that God will build him a house and that house will be eternal. We know that what he meant was that the Messiah, who is Jesus, would come from the line of David.

Now what is interesting to me is that we often times want to do something for God, but we must first let God build our house. In fact, we need to let God give us everything before we can do anything for Him. Once we recognize our need for God, not just at the moment of salvation, but at all moments then we are ready to be used by God, because then we will not go out in our own strength but in His.