The Grands Letter (Hag/GLJ)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D. on June 4, 2025 5:14 am (CST)Dear Grands,
Haggai 2:5-9, “’As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt, My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’ 6 ‘For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Once more in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea also and the dry land. 7 ‘And I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations; and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts. 8 ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD of hosts. 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give peace,’ declares the LORD of hosts.”
The verses above will undoubtedly seem strange to the ears of a 21st-century reader; but the House of the LORD had fallen into disrepair. Still, the LORD promises that it will not be long before His House will be rebuilt with greater glory than previously.
Sometimes we have concern for the building or repairing the LORD’s House when those costs fall upon us. In the passage above, however, the LORD promises that everything needed for the rebuilding is already in His hands. We’re just to believe!
Stories of such can be retold multiple times. As a young boy, I remember conversations among the adults in our church regarding the lack of funds to repair an area of our church building. Then, out of the blue, comes a distant relative of one of the members. Nothing was said to him about the need; yet, when he left the area, he left behind an offering that amounted to exactly the cost for those needed repairs.
The occurrence of things like this built within me the confidence that I would need when, in several years, He would call me into His full-time ministry. That has been nearly 70 years ago, and He has never failed to provide whatever was needed. What’s more, He never will! We simply have to trust Him day by day! He holds everything in His hands!
Heartily in Christ Jesus,
(Dado III)
Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
United States of America
“We will never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom
