1:7 萬軍之耶和華如此說:「你們要省察自己的行為。
1:8 你們要上山取木料,建造這殿,我就因此喜樂,且得榮耀。這是耶和華說的。
1:9 你們盼望多得,所得的卻少;你們收到家中,我就吹去。這是為甚麼呢?因為我的殿荒涼,你們各人卻顧(原文是奔)自己的房屋。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
1:10 所以為你們的緣故,天就不降甘露,地也不出土產。
1:11 我命乾旱臨到地土、山岡、五穀、新酒,和油,並地上的出產、人民、牲畜,以及人手一切勞碌得來的。」
"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider
your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may
take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. You looked for
much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it
away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins,
while each of you busies himself with his own house. Therefore the heavens
above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. And I
have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new
wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all
their labors."
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上帝透過哈該宣告的事,是要猶大人清楚他們的生活為何如此缺乏!是因為歸回的猶大人,不理上帝的殿荒涼,你們各人卻顧自己的房屋。自己的房子弄得很好,卻不理上帝的家!
這也提醒今日的基督徒,常常認為將家中不要的東西送到教會,好像是與大家分享,其實是將教會當資源回收廠!
我們要以上帝在這裡說的話為鑑,不要再做這樣的事了!應該將最好的拿到教會,與弟兄姊妹分享,大家感謝的時候,就是將榮耀歸給主了!照樣上帝才會賜豐富在我們當中!
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