Haggai 2:10-19

v10-14

Haggai speaks to the priests and asks questions about ritual purity, then turns the spotlight on the people: “Whatever they do is

.”

• Even though they were obeying God’s command to

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  , their
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  were still not right — and that spoiled even their good actions.

• God’s verdict is clear: when our

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  is far from him, even our good actions become
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  .

• We can be more focussed on the

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  of the
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  instead of the
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  of the
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What sort of things do I do that I think make me a good person?

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v15-17

God tells them to “

” — to look back and realise that things haven’t been going right, despite their effort.

• The reason? God built

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  into their efforts to wake them up to their spiritual condition.

• But they hadn’t noticed, they were

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  . They’d been too busy doing “the right things” to ask whether their
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  were in the right place.

• But the truth is, no matter how hard we try to

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  ourselves, we’re still
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  and
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  .

Where am I finding the things I try to do for God frustrating or dry? Where might God be trying to wake me up to a heart problem?

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v18-19

Then God speaks again — and His tone changes: “From this day on, I will

you.”

• It’s not a reward for good behaviour. It’s

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• In Matthew 8, a man with

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  falls before Jesus and says, “If you’re willing, you can make me
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  .” And Jesus responds not only with words but with a
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  .

• Instead of becoming defiled, Jesus’

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  spreads and makes the man
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• That’s what Jesus does for us. He can make us

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Where in my life am I still scrubbing myself clean instead of asking Jesus to make me clean?