Thought of the Day !!

"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 house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house."
Haggai 1:9 (NIV)

I came across this verse in another devotion and the question was asked "Do you spend as much time on God's interests as you do on your own?" The author was trying to say that if God isn't a part of what we're doing, then it will all be blown away.

This reminded me of another passage from the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus speaks of building houses on rock instead of sand. The same question could be asked after reading this verse. Do we spend as much time on God's interests as we do on our own?

The verse from Haggai refers to God's people spending their time doing for themselves while the Temple (God's house) remained in ruin. If we update this to today, it might speak to us saying that we spend so much time thinking about ourselves that we forget that the Church (not referring to a building, but the people of God) is in decline in many ways.

So the question must be asked yet again. Do we spend as much time on God's interests as we do on our own?

In the love of Christ,
greg