God wants more for you than that

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Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Deep Discipleship”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “Think carefully about your ways: You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.” Haggai 1:5-6 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “God wants more for you than that”
 
Haggai was an Old Testament prophet who lived about 500 years before the time of Jesus. God sent him to preach and teach among the Jews who had been released from captivity in Babylon and who were now in the process of rebuilding the city of Jerusalem.
 
In the days of Haggai, the Jews had been back in Jerusalem for several decades and things were going relatively well. They had settled into life, built their own homes, cultivated the land, and they were establishing a nice life for themselves. But still, for the most part they were an unhappy and unsatisfied people. As we just read in 1:5-6, it seemed that no matter how much they acquired and how well they were doing materially, it was never enough and they were never truly satisfied.
 
The problem was that they were putting most of their time, attention, and effort into building a comfortable lifestyle, and they were paying little serious attention to God. In verse seven God told them “Think carefully about your ways …” Then the rest of this short book is about the people responding to God, changing their ways, and turning their attention back to God.
 
With respect to this passage, the editors of the Experiencing God Study Bible note that God wants more for us than just earning a living, raising a family, and acquiring stuff. He wants us to prosper spiritually not just materially. The people in Haggai’s day were getting what they were striving for in terms of worldly achievements and possessions, but they still weren’t really happy.
 
That’s true for many of us as well. We tend to settle for a life that is much less than what God wants us to have. C.S. Lewis put it this way, “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased “
 
Don’t be so easily pleased. God wants more for you than the life you have.  
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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