Saturday, June 28, 2014

Consider your ways. Haggai 1

Haggai 1:1-15
In the second year if Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai.
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
Consider your ways. You have sown much and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. He who earns wages does so to put them into a bad with holes.
Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
The Lord stirred up the spirit of many leader and high priests and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the month.
Sixteen years after the decree of the Persian Emperor Cyrus which allowed the people to return. Haggai and Zechariah began to stir things up. Thanks to them, by 516 the Temple was completed.
Why?
Life is hard, with food and clothing in short supply, and prices soaring. Why? Because the people have their priorities wrong.
They are all wrap up in their own selfish concerns. God is be neglected.
Consider your ways: repent ourselves.
God is the first priority in our life. Set the Lord at first priority, God looks us at important position either.
God has authority over all, God may destroy everything and blesses to everyone who loves.
Fountain of blessing is Jesus Christ!
How?
Am I concerning myself only? My living is to honor name of the Lord.

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