What do we do when we're discouraged about how things look? According to Haggai, the answer is to find hope in the greater glory to come.

What do you tend to put off? And why? Today, we begin a short series in the Book of Haggai. The people of God were putting off what God had for them… for 16 years! Why?

They were pouring their energy into something else…while God’s temple lied in ruins. But the good news: God promised to be with them. Before they restarted, before they got their lives together, he promised to be with them. And that gave them the power to walk in God’s purpose for them.

Today’s message is about how the "heroes of the faith" tell a story not only of faithfulness, but of severe dysfunction. We see the same pattern we see in our lives:
We get controlled by deep fear or desire.
We try to FORCE an outcome to avoid risk.
Lives get destroyed.
Thankfully, their lives and ours are not identified by our mess, but by God making it all new...and changing the world through us.