22/06/2019

The book of Haggai, chapters 1 & 2.

Verse 9 of chapter 1

“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.  What you brought home I blew away.  Why?  Declares the Lord, Almighty.  Because of my [spiritual] house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.”

Beloved friends and brothers in Christ.  Is this a time for us to be living in our paneled houses, while the Lord’s house remains in ruins? (V 4)

As a body of believers, each with a gift, a task, we ought to be working on the Lord’s house instead of trying to panel together our own little palace with wordly material, i.e.  fruits of our labour enabling us to settle down here and now and become comfortable with our temporary life on earth. 

How do we build this spiritual house?  First and foremost the foundation should be our faith (hope and trust) in the Lord Jesus, off course.  Once we have eatablished the foundation as I believe we have already done, the building material (bricks and mortar) consist of a mixture of daily prayer, studying the word and walking in the spirit. 

The building process consists of applying the fruit of the spirit (love, joy, peace, forebearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control), every day while putting on the full armour of God (Eph 6 v 14 – 18) to cover the house like a roof because our struggle is against the powers of this dark world and its spiritual forces.

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