DAILY READINGS: Joshua 14-15; Isaiah 10:5-34; 1 Thess. 1 to 2:12
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid… from this day will I bless you. Haggai 2:18-19
God's people had done well in rebuilding the temple. In light of this, God made a promise to His people that the barrenness they had been experiencing would be reversed. He even marked the date it would occur—the twenty fourth day of the ninth month. This can be our experience too. Perhaps we have neglected the claims of God on our lives. If we again rededicate our lives, our all, to Him, from that very day, we can expect to see blessing come down upon us from above. —W. H. Burnett
All to Jesus, I surrender; Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power; let Thy blessing fall on me.—Judson W. VanDeventer