Huge Hope: Major Power in the Minor ProphetsNäide

It’s all God’s. Everything in this earth. Every ounce of gold, every sliver of silver. Every pebble on every mountain and every kernel of grain in every field. All of it: His.

How does your heart respond to that truth? Does it fill you with joy? Does it do anything to soothe the poverty-laden worries that wander through your mind (or that maybe live there)? Does it cause you to walk a little straighter, step a little more confidently, knowing that everywhere you go belongs to your Father in Heaven?

In today’s scripture reading, the prophet Haggai imparts this wisdom from God: “I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with splendor… The silver is mine, and the gold is mine.”

Haggai is encouraging his listeners to rebuild a temple to God, and God is letting them know that, when their work is done, He’ll take care of the splendor part.

Our job is not to try to create splendor—our job is just to do what God has put in front of us and to let Him take care of the rest. Because it’s all His anyway. We’re just participating in building His kingdom because He likes it that way.

It’s all God’s. What will you do with it?