Build the house

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. – Haggai 1.8-10

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house; and I will be glorified. God’s answer to the dilemma was to just get to work. God told them that blessings were being withheld from them was because they were totally neglecting His work.  Their focus was all on them and not on God. Their hearts and minds were on earthly things, not heavenly. The looked at the seen, not the unseen. They walked by sight, not faith.

But God has the solution – just get back at it. Get up and get back to work. I think we all go through times when we get down and discouraged and we might even pull back from God and focus on us. Once we get there it can be hard to get back on track, but the longer we go the harder it is to get back at the work.

All of us have jobs we need to do but have been putting off. Sometimes there are things we just don’t want to do. Sometimes it is just laziness or lethargy. Either way there is only one solution – get to work.