Consider Your Ways

 August 14, 2023- Morning Bible Reading and Meditation Haggai 1KJV

“4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.”

Words to ponder for today:

Consider your ways

The house was ruined, people walked by

They wagged their head, sees hopelessness.

Bywords are spoken,but none stop by,

To see what is needed, for the ruined to be built. 

One has to stand, and must boldly speak, 

His heart was strengthened, to proclaim and to preach; 

The cause of dissatisfaction, and restlessness, 

Is lack of care, for the house that was laid in waste. 

Stand up! O mighty, take courage to lead.

Get up on your feet, and be willing to do the first step. 

The LORD give you courage, for the works to be met. 

Your hand will He strengthen, you must consider your ways.. 

Enough for wandering, make up your mind.

GOD has commanded for all to take part.

If your feel discontented, when everything is in your hand,

Take heed to His calling, and be satisfied. 

Take a careful thoughts: 

When The LORD urged Haggai to preach and proclaimed His commandment, all the people took heed; and follow the leadership of Judah’s Governor Zerubbabel, together with the High Priest Joshua; during the time of King Darius. 

We are now in the age, where everyone is soaked within our own circumstances, struggles and hardship. 

Just like them, who were carried away captives, and just trying their very best to make life as comfortable as they can. 

But all their hard works had never been enough, until they took heed to  the calling to build the house of worship. 

So as it is for us all; things will always be difficult for us and we will always feel that emptiness, until we come to realized that what we need is GOD to satisfies our emptiness.

Let us all then take heed, and consider our ways; be warned, be willing and be won, to help “build the house of worship”; by giving time to listen to the preaching of GOD’s words, which were made easy, for everyone to be heard. 

And take our part; for each one who are called, surely has a purpose. 

Good morning.

Haggai 1KJV

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

8 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.

9 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.

10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord.

13 Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

14 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,

15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.