“CONSIDER YOUR WAYS!”

 Haggai 1:2-6                                         (ESV)

“[2] “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” [3] Then the Word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, [4] “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this HOUSE lies in ruins? [5] Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS”. [6] You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.”

Mankind has a peculiar sense of the “needs” of humanity!  FROM EXPERIENCE, we only “need” our next breath.  Everything else is simply a GIFT!  Now I can’t remember much from my time in the coma nearly seventeen years ago, but I can remember that I couldn’t fathom paying for the care that I was receiving.  Being placed in the coma was something that I could not have imagined, and giving up control over EVERYTHING, including breathing air was something that ALMIGHTY GOD took out of my hands!!!

In a quiet, peaceful way, GOD orchestrated a healing process that even my doctors give HIM credit for!  “You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes” is something that could have been said about me.  

Since then, it is as if GOD is telling me “Don’t CONSIDER the ways of others, but “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS””!!!  Certainly not always, but I try to find out what THE LORD is trying to say to me, not what others need to hear from HIM!  In the passages above, GOD is telling HIS CHOSEN to “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS” and build MY HOUSE!  Quit trying to build your personal wealth and BUILD MY KINGDOM!  

We are CHOSEN IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4), yet we MUST continually be drawn to HIM because “the enemy” seeks to destroy THE LORDS PLAN!  We are HIS (Romans 8:38) and NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US from HIS LOVE!!!  HIS PLAN shall be my endeavor and I need to “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS” before doing anything in life!!!