Hearing all that God has to say to us - not only the things we want to hear!

“Far from being legalistic, Malachi has penetrated to the core of both the law and the prophets. His one great plea is for a personal relationship with the living God, who seeks men to 'walk with Him' (cf. 2:6). Malachi's remarkable ethical thrust has lost none of its cutting edge through the passing ot time. His teaching, both negative and positive, strikes at the heart of nominal, easy-going Christianity as it did at that of Judaism. Can it be that the book is disparaged because 'With man as the filter through which the word must pass ... it is inevitable that he will censor out what he does not wish to hear and audit only what he is predisposed to hear'?” (Joyce G Baldwin, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: An introduction and commentary).