Nov. 19
FROM OBEDIENCE TO BLESSING
"From this day will I bless you" Haggai 2:19
Future things are hidden from us. Yet here is a glass in which we
may see the unborn years. The Lord says, "From this day will I bless
you."
It is worth while to note the day which is referred to in this
promise. There had been failure of crops, blasting, and mildew, and
all because of the people's sin. Now, the Lord saw these chastened
ones commencing to obey His word, and build His temple, and therefore
He says, "From the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was
laid, consider. From this day will I bless you." If we have lived in
any sin, and the Spirit leads us to purge ourselves of it, we may
reckon upon the blessing of the Lord. His smile, His Spirit, His
grace, His fuller revelation of His truth will all prove to us an
enlarged blessing. We may fall into greater opposition from man
because of our faithfulness, but we shall rise to closer dealings with
the Lord our God, and a clearer sight of our acceptance in Him.
Lord, I am resolved to be more true to thee, and more exact in my
following of thy doctrine and thy precept; and I pray thee, therefore,
by Christ Jesus, to increase the blessedness of my daily life
henceforth and for ever.