SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/31/2016 9:55 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
Encouragement: God’s
Provision
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Haggai 2:8
Message of the verses: “8 ’The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’
declares the LORD of hosts.”
When you
look at this verse we should realize that not only does God own the silver and
the gold, but He owns everything for He created all things. God is the One who has caused both silver and
gold to be worth a lot, as it has been worth much ever since He created the
earth. People just don’t understand
these kind of things as they think that man is the one who has caused silver
and gold to be worth much. I also have
to mention the following verse that goes along with this one: “Ps 50:10 “For every beast of the forest is
Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.” A
long time ago when I first started going to Moody’s Founder Week I remember
that one of the speakers used this verse in talking about a crisis situation
that someone had as they needed a pretty good sum of money. They prayed that since God owned the cattle
on a thousand hills that He would sell some of them and send the money to them
for their great need. Come to find out a
cattle rancher from Texas did sell some of his cattle and sent the money to
them.
Remember
our first main section in this chapter was entitled “Look Up: God is With Us,”
and we are looking at the last sub-point under this main point. Now we realize that the economy was not good
for those exiles who came back to Jerusalem to build the temple and to live in
the city of Jerusalem, and so God is encouraging them with these words spoken
to them by Haggai. Now when we look at
the book of Ezra we know that the Persian government did give them money, but
that money can run out where God never has that problem. We read the following in Philippians 4:19 “And
my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ
Jesus.”
Dr. Wiersbe
concludes this sub-section which concludes this first main section with the following
paragraph: “It’s better to fail in an
endeavor that you know will ultimately succeed than to succeed in an endeavor
you know will ultimately fail. The
humble temple the Jewish remnant was construction would not last, and even
Herod’s ornate temple would be destroyed by the Romans, but there would one day
be a glorious temple that nobody could destroy or defile. Knowing this, the discouragement remnant
could take courage and finish their work.”
We know
that this kind of thinking can be translated into our lives as we are to being
about our Father’s business to bring glory to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
3/31/2016 10:12 PM
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