Haggai is a great little book. This is a prophet who doesn't use all kinds of symbolism and freaky imagery. He just tells it like it is. The people have returned from captivity and have begun settling back into their homeland but construction of the temple still has not yet begun. So Haggai gives them this message from the Lord:
Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin? (1:4)
Yeah, we do that, don't we? We spend time, money and energy on making our own lives comfortable
first. We give time, money and energy to God out of whatever we have left...and often we don't have much because there's always something else we feel like we should have. We (I) invest in things that don't last instead of something that has eternal significance.
Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. (1:5)
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