Press On! (5 of 8)
Series: Getting Back to What Matters Most
Wyman Richardson
Haggai 2:1-5
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I do so love these pictures that float around online that show people trying, and failing spectacularly, to create the item pictured on the package! Many of these are food-related.
There is a great distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought,'' no? We all know what it is to have our ''Nailed it!'' moment of disappointment. Israel did as well. Haggai 2 begins with Israel's ''Nailed it!'' moment, their moment of sadness in the distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought,'' between the reality and expectation.
We must not be at peace with the distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought.''
Israel heeded the call of God and returned to the task of rebuilding the temple. After a period of time, the Lord spoke to them about their work.
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 ''Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
Carol and Eric Meyers point out that ''this date is toward the end of Tishri-that is, on October 17, 520...nearly a month would have passed since the people responded to Haggai's initial call to work.'' This is significant for, after a month, while the project was still certainly in its beginning stages, the people would have had time to get a sense of the scope of the project, of how it was going in its initial stages, and to begin to form opinions of how the work was progressing. For these reasons, the words of the Lord must have been devastating.
3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
The note of disappointment ...
Series: Getting Back to What Matters Most
Wyman Richardson
Haggai 2:1-5
Read Haggai 2:1-5
I do so love these pictures that float around online that show people trying, and failing spectacularly, to create the item pictured on the package! Many of these are food-related.
There is a great distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought,'' no? We all know what it is to have our ''Nailed it!'' moment of disappointment. Israel did as well. Haggai 2 begins with Israel's ''Nailed it!'' moment, their moment of sadness in the distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought,'' between the reality and expectation.
We must not be at peace with the distance between the ''is'' and the ''ought.''
Israel heeded the call of God and returned to the task of rebuilding the temple. After a period of time, the Lord spoke to them about their work.
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2 ''Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
Carol and Eric Meyers point out that ''this date is toward the end of Tishri-that is, on October 17, 520...nearly a month would have passed since the people responded to Haggai's initial call to work.'' This is significant for, after a month, while the project was still certainly in its beginning stages, the people would have had time to get a sense of the scope of the project, of how it was going in its initial stages, and to begin to form opinions of how the work was progressing. For these reasons, the words of the Lord must have been devastating.
3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
The note of disappointment ...
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