| Spending time in the Scriptures Haggai | by A. Kimber | |||||
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What are our priorities? The message that Haggai brought challenged the preconceptions of the day. The people were saying that it was not time to build the house of the Lord but yet the Lord gave the message to Haggai, is it time for the people to live in their posh houses while the house of the Lord was lying in ruin? Haggai’s call was for the people to consider their ways. The people are asked to consider things around them, things that they have done have come to little result, crops that they have sown have yielded little. The Lord's commandment is to rebuild His temple so that He can take pleasure in it. In contrast to so many things that we have considered in recent months where the children of God rejected His authority here we see that the people fear the Lord and rebuild the temple. Yet this new temple was nothing in comparison to the old temple, Solomon had overlaid everything with gold and riches, the people are reminded of this yet assured of the presence of the spirit of God. This was in spite of the fact that the people weren’t holy and clean before God and needed to be reminded of the duty to holiness. Yet they had been faithful to God and Zerubbabel, the son of the governor is given a promise that although the nations around will be shaken and overthrown he would be protected, and have authority from God following his obedience. Let us take the challenge to heart and consider our ways. Are we putting our comfort first or does the work of God take precedence? Are we willing to be obedient? As Christians we are assured of the Holy Spirit within us yet are we sometimes working with unclean hands? Lets ensure that we are right before God and seek to find His approval for what we do. Haggai 1:4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Haggai 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 2:5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. Haggai 2:23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
All quotes are from the King James version of the Bible unless otherwise specified. | ||||||
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