I may appear in my glory

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Weekday

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel: Haggai 1:1-8 Psalm 149:1-6, 9 Luke 9:7-9

Haggai 1:8  Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the LORD.

There has been a movement to make churches, or houses of worship less spectacular.  People worship in old grocery stores and gymnasiums etc..  They think that somehow they are more faithful if they don’t make the place appear to be special.  But why wouldn’t we want to make God’s house better?  It would seem to me that we would want to make it glorious. I think that many of these people take more care for their own houses than they do for God’s house.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to work to make everything that is your better especially those things that reflect your glory to others like your houses of worship

Amen