DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 1-2; Ezekiel 27; John 10:1-18
Consider your ways. 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. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 1:5, 7
The work of rebuilding the temple had come to a halt, yet the people built houses for themselves. As a result poverty, barrenness and frustration had come into their lives. But Haggai comes with a message of hope and recovery, which will depend on the people "considering their ways," and reversing the sad neglect that had taken place. Let’s be challenged by Haggai today, and "Consider our ways." —W. H. Burnett
Revive Thy work O Lord, disturb this sleep of death,
Quicken the smoldering embers, Lord, by Thine Almighty breath.—Albert Midlane