Build God's House!
Time. Don't you wish there was more of it? I often think of how much I could get done if we just had a few more hours in a day! Mercifully, God is not limited by time. He gives us an allotted time on this earth (we don't know what that time is) and is watching to see how we use the time He gives us. As my children grow, I am finding that next to the gospel, the most important thing that I can teach them is to prioritize Jesus in their hearts and lives. Haggai is an itty, bitty book in the back of your Old Testament. It is only two chapters long! God gave the prophet Haggai a message and it boils down to this: "Ya'll forgot about my house! Fix it!" (Those are my words, not God's, in case you were wondering!) You see, these Jewish people had been exiles in Babylon. They had returned to their homeland and started building for themselves some pretty nice houses. It had been eighteen years...