Careful Thought

We can rest easy. Or not.

From israelinsider:’With the help of G-d, the soul of the Messiah has attached itself to a person in Israel’ [Hebrew: 'Hit'abra bezrat hashem nishmat mashiach b'adam m'yisrael'].

Kabbalistic Rabbi Yitzhak Kedourie, 104, after a 45 minute trance on Yom Kippur

And here we were worried about that whole rapture thing. Now I missed it. Dang.

A few weeks ago I was asked to teach our adult Sunday School class and on a whim/at the urging of the Holy Spirit I decided to teach on one of the Minor Prophets. Usually we don’t spend much time on these guys, but there is a lot of meat in those smaller books. I chose Haggai because I didn’t know much about him.

During the Babylonian exile, Haggai was part of the group charged to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. He gives a bit of a smackdown to the people who returned, because they were getting too comfy and hadn’t quite gotten around to starting on the Temple. Twice (Haggai 1:5,7 NIV) he tells them the word from God, “Give careful thought to your ways.”

Okay, hindsight has Lasik, but when the Lord and Creator of the Universe tells you to give careful thought to your ways, I’m going to stop and consider what I’m doing. These guys were focused on making sure they had nice houses and all the goodies available to the re-occupiers of an abandoned city. They lost track of the task that God had set before them.

My prayer for my life (and for this blog) is that I would give careful thought to my ways and make sure that my ways line up with His ways. You may see some frivolous stuff here on occasion [God has a sense of humor, too!] but hopefully most of it will reflect a life focused on the tasks that He has set before me.