Weekly Bible Verse – Unlocking God’s Blessing
You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD Almighty, while you are all busy building your own fine houses. Haggai 1:9 (NLT)
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be blessed financially more than you? Certainly there are myriad possible reasons for this (including maybe you are just greedy and your dearth of blessing is just in your imagination to maybe you are just greedy and God knows you would not be able to properly handle large finances). Seriously, there are a bunch of different possibilities – too many to list in this post. This verse from Haggai, however, might explain one reason for a lack of financial blessing.
Personally, I see the theme of priorities running throughout the Bible. As far as priority number one in our lives, that should belong to God! We see here in this verse from Haggai that the people had gotten their priorities all out of whack. They had been spending time and money building their “paneled houses” while the Lord’s house remained in ruins. As we can see, God did not take kindly to that flipping of priorities and eventually diminished their harvests and blessings in order to get their attention.
Reflect on your own life and your priorities therein. Are you mixing up your list of priorities? Are you devoting too much of your time to pursuing your own selfish desires rather than pursuing God? Are you giving of your firstfruits to God’s kingdom or what little is left at the end of the month? If you don’t feel like you are experiencing God’s “abundant life,” maybe it is because those priorities are not lined up with God’s – just something to ponder.
God bless and have a great week…
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Among the 3 major Abrahamic religions, the first among the people to follow their Prophets and Messengers were not the wealthy leaders of the town but actually the poor people.