Read Haggai 1 Neglecting Gods House.

Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways! Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD." (Haggai 1:7-8 NKJV)

After the return of the exile from Babylon to their homeland; God calls His people to rebuild the temple. They laid the foundation but left for sixteen years without doing anything after that. Now the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, calling them back to the rebuilding.

The consequences - You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink but you are not filled with drink: You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns ways, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes." (1:6). They have been busy with all the cares of this life. They have laboured but without much fruit. They never feel satisfied with all they were doing.

The cause - It is time to review the direction their life. He draws them to their awareness of their labour in vain. They have to consider their ways. Hebrew figure of speech for this phrase is literally put your heart on your roads. Whats their way? They only care for their own house and neglect the house of God. Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins? (Haggai

The cure -He challenges them to rebuild the temple, Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the Lord. (Haggai

Gods principle- There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty. (Proverbs

Prayer: Lord You desire to bless and prosper my labor for meeting needs whether be personal, family or those whom You have entrusted me. I trust You as I seek first Your Kingdom that all these needs are met. I take therefore delight in obedience to Your desire. Whatever it is my lot, small or great concerning the work pertaining to Your Kingdom. Through total dependence upon You I may experience Your pleasure and glory.

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