“Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over.” Then God said: “Here’s what I want you to do: Climb into the hills and cut some timber. Bring it down and rebuild the Temple. Do it just for me. Honor me. You’ve had great ambitions for yourselves, but nothing has come of it. And why? Because while you’ve run around, caught up with taking care of your own houses, my home is in ruins…”

Is His House – our lives, the Home for His Spirit – in ruins? We have great ambitions for ourselves, but in our ambitions, have we lost The Way? Let us take a good, hard look at our lives and think it over as the The God of Angel Armies suggests through the prophet Haggai.

When God sent the prophet Haggai to them, they paid attention to him. In listening, they honored God. Then Haggai, God’s messenger, preached God’s Message to the people: “I am with you!” God’s Word.

We honor Him by listening, but will we receive Him? God’s message hasn’t changed: He is with us. He longs to be in us (fill us with His Spirit, Life), and when He is allowed access, when we set our ambitions aside, He is able to do what only God can do and that is bring the dead to Life. (Romans 4:18)

“Yes, get to work! For I am with you.” The God-of-the-Angel-Armies is speaking! “Put into action the word I covenanted with you when you left Egypt. I’m living and breathing among you right now. Don’t be timid. Don’t hold back.” This is what God-of-the-Angel-Armies said: “Before you know it, I will shake up sky and earth, ocean and fields. And I’ll shake down all the godless nations. They’ll bring bushels of wealth and I will fill this Temple with splendor.” God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so. “I own the silver, I own the gold.” Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies. “This Temple is going to end up far better than it started out, a glorious beginning but an even more glorious finish: a place in which I will hand out wholeness and holiness.” Decree of God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Non-circumstantial Wholeness. Holiness. Pure and Complete Goodness, a glorious beginning but an even more glorious finish. Will we rebuild the Temple, our Lives, for Him?