BAG WITH HOLE Thursday December 3, 2015
Text: Haggai 1:1 – 6 Memory verse: v 6
After the return from captivity, Haggai was sent to encourage the people to rebuild the temple, and to reprove their neglect. There was serious sin of these Jews in that they neglected the building of God's house, that they might have more time and money for worldly affairs. The poverty they thought to prevent by not building the temple, God brought upon them for not building it. Thus Haggai called on them to consider their ways (1:5).
Many of us act foolishly like the Jews here. We hold back our tithes and offering thinking that paying them will make us poorer not knowing that such is even the key to our poverty. The result is having a bag with a hole. We should search ourselves. God cannot be mocked. Whatever God demands from us should be done to the letters to avoid futility in our works.
Food for Thought: Does your bag have holes on them?
Prayer: Lord may I not work into bags with holes in Jesus name.
