Consider Your Ways: The Lord of Hosts Calls for Reflection
The prophet Haggai delivers an urgent summons from Adonai, the Lord of hosts: "Consider your ways." The Hebrew phrase *set your heart upon your ways*...
This is historical examples on self-examination and accountability and divine authority and care, drawing on Ezekiel 3:5.
The prophet Haggai delivers an urgent summons from Adonai, the Lord of hosts: "Consider your ways." The Hebrew phrase set your heart upon your ways demands far more than casual introspection. The Jews of Haggai's time had fallen into spiritual lethargy, their slothful security masking a deeper neglect of covenant duty. They faced outward circumstances—rubble, opposition, hardship—yet their true hindrance was internal: insensibility toward Elohim and holy things.…
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