God
calls His people - "Be strong" (Haggai 2:4). This call comes to the
"governor", "the high priest" and "all you people of the land" (Haggai
2:2). We need spiritual strength in government, in the Church and
throughout the land. This strength is needed if we are to build upon the
sure foundation of truth. The Lord's work is to be built up. This can
only be done when we stand for the truth in the face of "many deceivers,
who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh" (2 John 7).
John tells us that we must take care to ensure fruitfulness in the
Lord's work - "Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for,
but that you may be rewarded fully" (2 John 8). The danger we must take
care to avoid is described pictorially in Haggai 1:6 - "You earn wages,
only to put them in a purse with holes in it." When we hear a message
such as this, we must receive it with humility and not with pride - "A
man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honour"
(Proverbs 29:23).
Psalm 48:1-14 Lord, we worship You in the place of worship – “Within Your Temple, we meditate on Your unfailing love.” Help us to go out from there, and play our part in seeing that Your praise “reaches to the ends of the earth” (Psalm 48:: 9-11). How will other people know of Your love, if we don’t tell them? How will they find their way to Your House, if we don’t invite them? When we share Your Word with others, help us to remember Your promise: “My Word … will not return to Me empty, but will … achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).
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