GOD FOREVER MOVES TOWARDS THE HIGHER
"The latter glory
of this House shall be greater than the former" Hag. 2:9
In this chapter there
are three messages, all of which were called forth by ATTITUDES of the people
which threatened to prevent their ACCOMPLISHMENT of the great work. The first
message aroused them and under the leadership of Zerubbabel the governor and
Joshua the high priest, they started well. After about seven weeks came the
feast of Tabernacles with its necessary cessation of work. During that period
they were beset by the laments
and weeping’s of those who grieved over the poverty of the
House they were building, in comparison with the glorious House which had been
destroyed. Such mourning tended to dishearten them, and to correct this, the prophet
made this great declaration. Here again is a persistent peril. Men are
constantly tempted to think meanly of the work they are doing as they compare
it with the glories of past achievements. It is an utterly false and
unwarranted thing to do. To that House, lacking in some material splendor
which had characterized the former one, there was to come the desire of all
nations, and so a spiritual glory which the former House never knew. Let us lay
the lesson to heart. We may be working better and greater things than we know.
It is always futile to judge the value of God-appointed tasks by the appearance
of the hour in which they are done. If they are indeed appointed by Him, that
is enough for us to know; and more, that is the assurance that they are better
than the past, for God is forever moving towards the higher, the grander, the
nobler: and will do so, until He has wrought out the final perfection of His
will (Eph. 5:27; 1 Thess. 3:13). And
this was all part of a plan before the beginning of this earth (2 Tim. 1:9; 2 Thess. 2:13).
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