SUNDAY - 20TH JUNE, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
Happy Fathers' Day!
SLOW TO ANGER
READ Genesis 18:17-33
Genesis 18:32, KJV
"And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake."
God is a father. What makes Him One is that He exhibits characteristics of a father. What makes a thing that thing is that that thing has the characteristics of that thing.
In today's passage, Abraham interceded for Sodom. He began to trade and banter with God when He saw God's resolution to destroy it. He said, "what if you find only fifty righteous?" Then, to forty five, forty, thirty, twenty and ten.
On each occasion he took it upon himself to speak to God, God gave him answer. As he kept pushing the frontier and going deeper enquiring on the same subject, God didn't get angry. The bearing ability of a father is immediately revealed here.
Abraham himself knew that it is natural of any man to be irritated of such consistent enquiry. That's why before he asks his questions, he'll take a humble position by saying, "I am but dust and ashes." In some occasions, he pleaded with God not to be angry with him. He knew he was indulging in excesses himself. If it were Abraham himself a servant had persistently questioned in that manner, he might have retorted back with, "you're a dummy. Don't you understand a thing?" That's human for you. We all have limit in elasticity of bearing.
God however is not like that. He is slow to anger. Abraham pressed him six times on the same subject yet God didn't lose his temper. Do you act in same manner towards your children as a father? Like Abraham testified being dust, God Himself knows our frame is dust which is why He bears with us. In those days, whenever I seek to take revenge on my younger ones for any bad done me, my father would tell me to let go. He'll say, "they're only being childish." He knew how to rightly describe and see my siblings but I believed they were very much wise to know proper conduct.
Today, God is calling you to one thing - being slow to anger. God wants you to be very difficult to arouse or made angry. Even if you're a teacher and a student is asking irrelevant questions, God still wants you to accommodate him. All of us must know that what we already know is but nothing to us but what others don't know is their mountains. So, tolerate people's inconsistencies, excesses, growth and pressing etc.
PRAYER: Father, make me a father after Your heart. I receive ability to bear with excesses. Bless all fathers to stand strong as one.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Kings 22:1-53, Acts 13:16-41, Psalm 138:1-8, Proverbs 17:17-18
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