Consider your ways

Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built." ' "Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, "Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?" Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways! -  - Haggai 1v2-5

Instead of focusing on the procrastination I want to stop and look at the last three words here. After showing them their wrong priorities and dealing with their putting things off Haggai tells them simply – ‘Consider your ways.’

‘Consider your ways’ is something I don’t think we do often enough. We get caught in a day after day routine and before we know we go through day after day after day and never stop to think about what we are doing. This is especially likely when life, like it so often does, is just going along. There are no crises and no great victories. Life is just life.

These folks needed a wakeup call. God is gracious enough to provide it. He does that like He always does through His work. He does it here through Haggai. He does it other places with words like ‘It is high time to wake up out of your sleep,’

Lethargy is a terrible state in which to find ourselves. If our Christian life is just in a rut and plodding along perhaps we need to heed the words of Haggai and consider our ways to see if there are things we can be doing for God that we have let fall by the wayside.