Devotion for Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 "Consider Your Ways"

According to Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Dictionary, the word consider means "to think something over, to give it some careful thought before making a decision about it".

In Haggai 1:5 & 7 the Lord told Israel to "Consider your ways" Of course as God was speaking to Haggai He was refering to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem when He said to "consider your ways"

For the Christian, we are told in I Corinthians 6:19 about our temples, "What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" As we realize that our body are the temple of the Holy Spirit, we must, as God spoke in Haggi, "consider our ways."

What do we do? What do we say? Where do we go? Who are we? What do we allow to entertain ourselves? How do we respond? Consider your ways. You are building a temple for the Holy Spirit. Consider.