The house that you can build for God is the one that He builds within you with the words that you accept. You can not embrace God, but His Word, living in you, makes House where He can fit. If you want to host God, you must receive his Word. Oh wonder of the Divine Word, that being with the Father and as the Father source of all glory, is also humble and pious, so much so as to come to the heart of man!
It is necessary, then, that you accept the Word with all the strength of its blessing for you, but also with all the strength of its consecration. In fact, the Word of Christ can not inhabit a being without sanctifying it, in the same way that fire can not be alive without heating and burning. There are those who want to be blessed by the Word, in the sense of receiving their goods, but do not long to be consecrated by the Word, in order to become good. They are more interested in enjoying the good than in attaining it, and by this disastrous division they close the keys of mercy, because God stops his gifts when the hands first become negligent, then irresponsible and finally aggressive.