Thursday, 9/28/17
The first reading puts us in
the second year of the reign of Darius of Persia. That would have been in 521
B.C. In the reading the Prophet Haggai is chiding the people for not having
rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem.
It was then nine years since
the people of Judah had been released from their seventy years of imprisonment
in Babylon, and Haggai is asking them why they have not fulfilled their promise
of rebuilding the temple destroyed by the Babylonians seventy years earlier.
The reason they have not
built the temple was that although they longed to see the temple rise again, they
lacked the materials and the expertise. As well, they lacked a leader who could
inspire them to undertake the immense task.
They could only hope to
secure this expertise, the materials, the inspirational leader, if they were
successful in begging God for help. The same goes for us: we can only fulfill
our destiny by troubling God with our pleas for help.
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