#haggai

They tried and tried, but it didn’t happen. But perhaps Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were describing some of us when he said, “I can’t get no satisfaction”. All of us spend at least some of our time trying to get enough, whether it’s money or control or food or pleasure… But what do you do when having enough just doesn’t satisfy? According to the Stones, you can try and try (and try!) but…

God also reveals much to us about the precept of sowing and reaping in this section of Haggai. The parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15) is often used in connection with evangelism. There’s nothing wrong with understanding this interpretation, but we can also see something else in its contents: where we sow matters. Scattering seeds here, there, and everywhere, without…

Even as the Jews began rebuilding the temple after exile, they knew that the second temple would not be as glorious as the first temple had been. But God still encouraged them to keep working, and assured them that something better was to come.

“ i am with you,says the Lord”