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HAVE YOU CONSIDERED YOUR WAYS?
SEP 23
Haggai 1
Memorise Haggai 1:4-5 "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways"
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED YOUR WAYS?
God’s authoritative call came thundering to the people of Israel through the prophet Haggai, "Consider your ways!" This call came to them twice (Haggai 1:5, 7), urging them to really pause and take stock of how they were living their lives. They were to reflect on their priorities, and see if they had sinned against the Lord.
The problem that Israel was facing at that point of time is not a unique one. In fact, many professing Christians share the same attitude as them in this day and age. Their problem was one of apathy. They had become lukewarm in their relationship with God. Their priorities had shifted such that God and His glory was no longer important in their life, and they cared only for their own personal comforts and their own luxuries in life. They procrastinated and said "the time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built" (Haggai 1:2). They lived in ceiled houses (houses with ceilings) whilst the house of God lay in waste. They just ignored the half-built temple, and concentrated on sowing their fields and making lives comfortable for themselves. And so before they knew it, more than 10 years had passed, and the temple of the Lord was just left as it was.
Therefore, the Lord’s command to them was to "consider your ways!" They were to examine their lives and consider their priorities. They were told that unless they placed God first once again and start serving Him, all else that they did would be for nought. They were to shake off their spiritual apathy and lethargy, and go labour for the Lord! They were to serve Him, for the pleasure and glory of the Lord. That was to be their motivation.
Dear teen, what are your priorities? Have you taken a step back recently to examine your life, to search your heart to see if you have allowed other things in your life to take priority over God? Are you serving as you ought to? Do you desire the pleasure and glory of God in your life, or have you become slack and spiritually lacklustre in your walk with God? Perhaps it is time we returned to build up our spiritual house of the Lord, and focused on the things of eternity, and not the things of this world.
Thought: Is God number one in my life?
Prayer: Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Posted in Teens RPG
Haggai 1
Memorise Haggai 1:4-5 "Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways"
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED YOUR WAYS?
God’s authoritative call came thundering to the people of Israel through the prophet Haggai, "Consider your ways!" This call came to them twice (Haggai 1:5, 7), urging them to really pause and take stock of how they were living their lives. They were to reflect on their priorities, and see if they had sinned against the Lord.
The problem that Israel was facing at that point of time is not a unique one. In fact, many professing Christians share the same attitude as them in this day and age. Their problem was one of apathy. They had become lukewarm in their relationship with God. Their priorities had shifted such that God and His glory was no longer important in their life, and they cared only for their own personal comforts and their own luxuries in life. They procrastinated and said "the time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built" (Haggai 1:2). They lived in ceiled houses (houses with ceilings) whilst the house of God lay in waste. They just ignored the half-built temple, and concentrated on sowing their fields and making lives comfortable for themselves. And so before they knew it, more than 10 years had passed, and the temple of the Lord was just left as it was.
Therefore, the Lord’s command to them was to "consider your ways!" They were to examine their lives and consider their priorities. They were told that unless they placed God first once again and start serving Him, all else that they did would be for nought. They were to shake off their spiritual apathy and lethargy, and go labour for the Lord! They were to serve Him, for the pleasure and glory of the Lord. That was to be their motivation.
Dear teen, what are your priorities? Have you taken a step back recently to examine your life, to search your heart to see if you have allowed other things in your life to take priority over God? Are you serving as you ought to? Do you desire the pleasure and glory of God in your life, or have you become slack and spiritually lacklustre in your walk with God? Perhaps it is time we returned to build up our spiritual house of the Lord, and focused on the things of eternity, and not the things of this world.
Thought: Is God number one in my life?
Prayer: Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Posted in Teens RPG