Prophet Haggai preached about spiritual priorities. Disobedience gets most blame. Wrong priorities is really main problem. Giving God second place more devastating than sins.
Haggai challenges them to consider reason for difficulties. Half-hearted attempt to rebuild. Initial decree of Cyrus to rebuild. Their own homes got more attention. They were apathetic and self-centered. Reason economy was a shambles. How much time do we devote to God? Time is like money — it shows where our heart is. Jews responded to Haggai with an initial burst of energy. After one month, discouragement set in. Cults are low on consistency, high on appearance. History of our own church. Jesus taught in this temple years later.
After 3 months of rebuilding, why no blessing?
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Yet blessings will follow obedience. God is looking for loyalty. But good things can become condemnable things if they are achieved at the cost of the prioritizing of God and His ways. Do you have a picture of that in your mind? Now ask yourself, would God be there? The only question is, will we treasure our own paneled houses or will we treasure the Lord our God? Be honest with yourself: Is that showing up in your priorities?
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Is there even room in your life as you have created it for tending to the things of God? I plead with you to make it so if there is not! Why does it matter so much? It matters so much because anything in life that you move to the center of your life where God alone should be is doomed to frustrate you and leave you empty. This is devastating because it is one of the best descriptions of modern American life I have ever read.
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We consume and consume and consume, but all for nothing. At the end of the day, after all of our laboring and trying and buying and consuming, we are left empty. Consider the ways of the modern, upwardly-mobile American.
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He must have that car and those clothes and that spouse and those kind of children who do those kinds of things with those kinds of people to create that specific kind of image for us to put on Facebook! Consider the ways of the modern American enslaved to social media. He must take one thousand selfies so he can delete all but one in an effort to find just the right image to put on his social media platforms so hopefully just the right people will think just the right thing.
Consider the successful American businessman who spends all of his time, often to the neglect of his family, to climb the ladder so that he can finally tell himself and others that he has made it, that he has arrived! Consider the helicopter mom who must control her children and everybody else around them so as to create what she considers to be the optimal outcome.
Consider the neurotic parents who demand that their children perform in such and such a way so that they can live vicariously through them. Consider all the ways we as modern American try desperately and spend ourselves in a frantic effort to achieve some goal, we often know not what, to impress some people, we often know not who, so that we can be thought well of! We consume things and time and each other in a frenzied and misguided circus of activity all in the hope that we might matter!
And we so often do these things while the temple of God lies in ruins in our own hearts! So too with us! We are reaping what we have sown! But here is the good news: You do not have to neglect the things of God! You could turn to God and to the life He has for you.
You could lose yourself in His glory and nourish yourself on His word! You could turn to the rubble of the temple in your life and simply begin! And when this happens, when we set down our stuff and dare to turn our attention back to what matters most, we will suddenly find that we are now equipped to handle our stuff! If we get the most important thing in the right place then the other things can get in their right places and then we can actually start living life as it is meant to be lived! The beauty of this is that Jesus will say the exact same thing Haggai said.
In Matthew 6, Jesus said:. And that, in a nutshell, is what Haggai is about! It is about getting the kingdom in front of us instead of behind us or off to the side. It is about following Jesus first, not as an afterthought or as a religious custom. How is it that there are so many of us who now have more than we have ever had,live better then we have ever lived, and yet there is still no contentment, no peace, no happiness.
I believe that the answer lies in what we have allowed to become our new priority. The book of Haggai is the clarion call for us to wake up and take a conscientious look at what we are doing and what we have allowed to become our major concern! God is calling for us to consider our ways!
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