CONSIDER YOUR WAYS:

HAGGAI 1:1-7

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earned wages earned wages to put it into a bag with holes. Verse 6 explains why we lack in many things in our everyday life.

7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

In the 5th vs and then again in the 7th vs the prophet Haggai repeats the phrase meaning that it is a calling something to our attention and it maybe that something we’re just not getting or understanding something that is for our good. Consider your ways. Then he goes a little further over in Proverbs

PROVERBS 16:7

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him

Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

If our thoughts are not his thoughts, then this means that we must bring every thought captive or under subjection which is giving it to him.

2 Corinthians 10:5

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

2 Corinthians 10:4-6

King James Version

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.