haggai one

i found an interesting verse while i was reading the bible this last weekend and it keeps coming to mind...
Haggai 1:3-11:
3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?"
5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."
7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD. 9 "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands." (these verses are from a great site called Bible Gateway)
How much am I taking care of furthering God's Kingdom in my day-to-day life? Am I doing all I should? or I guess the word is could... for me that scripture hit hardest in thinking about my kids - we can pray with them, discipline them, the whole bit; but how much am I teaching them? really teaching them - because they are the future kingdom of God?? Is this one of the reasons why we feel like we 'spin our wheels' with our business, with our finances and everything? I feel just like that scripture describes - we toil and try but it seems we have purses with holes in them. Our business just keeps struggling SO much... where are the fruits?

Is the fact that our labors are not producing the way it seems they should, due to the way we are or are not approaching God with our money? Did you notice that part of verse 11 that says He called for a drought on not just the ground and the wine but also on the men and the cattle... interesting... is that like, a drought on how much the men would produce at that time? I'll have to research that..
anyway, just my thoughts today. i'm REALLY excited that we are doing the Crown Ministries study on finances! i'm praying that it will all sink IN!!

What do you get from this verse? Does it speak to you in a different way?