Today is Tuesday, January 21, 2020 and here is your Daily Devo.
God’s desire is to dwell with humanity, not because He needs to but because He wants to. He created us for His glory and so that we could enjoy Him forever. Even given humankind’s sinful and ultimately futile resistance to this purpose, God will not depart from His purpose. As the restored Jewish people’s priorities wrongly consisted of their own creaturely comforts, all too often ours do as well. May we heed God’s instruction through Haggai to the people—and by extension to us—to prioritize the worship of Him above all matters in life, knowing that the pursuit of God’s glory is for our own good, indeed our highest good. We can trust Him to provide the means to worship Him properly even as our circumstances might prove difficult at times.
God’s promise of being with them found in verse 13 is one of tremendous comfort for any believer. God’s presence is a commanding anticipation in Scripture. God promised it to His people over and over again in the Old Testament (Jer. 32:38, Ezek. 37:27). It’s also the promise that God gave in the Book of Revelation about His climactic condescension to dwell with humanity (Rev. 21:3). God’s presence is the ultimate promise to His people. Because separation from God was the curse that resulted from Adam and Eve’s great sin in the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:23-24), we often get so caught up in the various blessings that God provides for us that we miss the greatest blessing of all, namely, God Himself.
Think about this: What was the promise God gave the Israelites in Haggai 1? In what ways do we tend to take for granted or forget the great gift that God Himself is to His children?
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