Consider Your Ways

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, "Consider your ways." Haggai 1v5

Haggai came to God's people in a very difficult time. A few years before they had returned to Jerusalem with great excitement and great fervency. The captivity was over and now they had the chance to rebuild the city and the Temple. They started work with a fervour. Pretty soon however things went sour. Opposition came, the enemy didn't like what they were doing, the work got hard and they eventually just laid it aside and went about their own business. They built nice homes for themselves and forgot about serving God. Fourteen years passed and they were still saying, "Oh, its not time to do God.s work yet!"

God sent the prophet Haggai to speak to them in this time. He point out to them that while God's house was in ruins they were all living in their finely furnished houses. They were grand with it all, but God was not happy with their complacency and procrastination.

"Consider your ways!" The words from Haggai's lips were a stinging rebuke to the people. "Think about what you are saying and what you are doing." These words from God's man are as appropriate now as they were then. We can get so caught up in wrong goals and wrong priorities that we forget all about God's work and doing the things He wants us to do.

Lets all take time to consider our ways this morning and every morning. Are the things on tap for today the things He would have us to do?