Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jul 20, 2024, 2:08 AM
Passage Read: Haggai 1 - Zechariah 2
Meditation Verses: Haggai 1:2-9
Thought
The Lord had brought Israel back from captivity, and they had started to rebuild the temple, but then quit. They turned to build their own houses, to expand them. They found their farming to be of limited success, so they spent more time trying to increase their harvest, though nothing worked. They didn't realize the Lord was working against them. They thought their own prosperity was more important than building the Lord's house.
Jun 29, 2023, 6:49 AM
Passage Read: Haggai 1 - Zechariah 2
Meditation Verses: Haggai 2:18-19
Thought
Haggai began prophesying on the first day of the sixth month, and 24 days later the leaders and the people responded in obedience and began building the temple of the Lord again. It took some time for them to repent, but it was far quicker than their forefathers who never repented! Yet it was another three months, to the day, that the Lord finally sent word that He would withdraw their punishment and start bringing a blessing.
Jul 1, 2022, 8:40 AM
Passage Read: Haggai 1 - Zechariah 2
Meditation Verses: Haggai 2:3-4
Thought
We are pretty self-absorbed. We put ourselves first, thinking that if we don't first make provision for ourselves, we won't be able to serve the Lord. But the Lord says otherwise. He afflicts our income and produce because we spend all our effort on ourselves, building nice houses to live in, making our comfort the number one priority. But God warns those who put themselves ahead of the Lord that they will not prosper.