February 14, 2009
DAY 28
Posted by KI Contributor
Scripture: Haggai 2:10-23
A Call to Holiness
In this passage, God instructed Haggai to ask the priests questions about transmitting holiness and defilement, as ceremonial uncleanness was passed on much more readily than holiness. The Lord’s point: Even though the people were back in the Holy Land, it did not automatically make them pure. They needed to obey God, and follow Him wholeheartedly with their being and doing.
It is easy for the church today to bring our sacrifices, be it our verbal worship, our material contribution, or our time and abilities in services, and yet be walking in disobedience. We oftentimes walk in disobedience due to a heart that is disengaged from God or a pattern of life contrary to His desires. Externally we might display an action of obedience, but in a deep inner being, we might be too far away from the Father’s heart. God desires our heart to be set aside for Him. He wants our lives to be set apart for Him. That’s what holiness is about – being set apart for God. Not through the motions, but through our heart and being. Furthermore, what God wants is a person who is broken enough to be at His feet, constantly engaging with God in a humble spirit. “This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.”(Isa 66:2) Only then, we will be able to walk toward the life of holiness.
Why are you doing what you are doing today? Why are you doing what you are doing the way you are doing it? Is this out of your holy devotion, complete, undivided devotion for the Lord? Give a careful thought to this from this day on.
PRAYER FOCUS: Women Migrant Day Laborers
Roughly 35% of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. are adult women, according to a 2006 analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center, and about 17% of the cleaning industry is made up of undocumented immigrants. Pray that they will be protected from unjust treatment and honored in their workplace, as well as find a way to establish a home.
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