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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Haggai 2:1-14
Haggai’s first revelation had brought blame. The second, less than a month after the leaders and the people had obeyed, comes to give words of exhortation and encouragement. "Be strong . . . and work" the LORD enjoins them. "This concerns My glory. Your work has in view a Person, ’the desire of all nations’ — Christ who will appear in glory" (v. 7).
But where are we to find the needed strength? "I am with you", is the precious reply, "I myself, the mighty God, the LORD of Hosts. What I give you will be enough: the Word . . . and My Spirit remain with you; fear not" (vv. 4, 5). Blessed resources! They are available too for us who live as Haggai did in a time of ruin.
In his third message the prophet recalls the practical holiness without which no work can be acknowledged by God. The twofold question put to the priests confirms the general principle that our contacts with a corrupt world will not purify it. On the contrary we shall, in the long run, inevitably be contaminated by a corrupt environment (1 Corinthians 15:33).
"I am with you always" the Lord Jesus promised (Matthew 28:20). But for our part, let us always stay close to Him.
