FRIDAY - 13TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
UZZIAH ARRIVED AND STIFFED
II Chronicles 26:15, KJV
"And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong."
I want to believe apart from the pride of ascension or achievement that fights people off the height of success, there's a strong demon specially deputized and delegated by Satan to see to it that any man up there comes down. Pride is a demon itself.
Uzziah started as nothing. Having partnered with God, help untold was brought into his life continuously to fill his nothingness and make him into something that could be boasted of. This help was constantly given him until the Bible described him as having reached a place where he became strong. Do you know what it means to be strong? It actually means being able to stand on one's own now. "Being strong" there brings the idea of a child who can now walk on his own without needing the parents to balance or stabilize him ( taking thought for him that he may fall while walking). However, you'll realize that that child can't say he is done with the parents yet.
Everybody that can now stand should beware. Don't be deceived that your being able to stand means God is done with you or He should be utterly removed and His inputs. No one removes God that survives it but that's where Satan wants success and your being made strong (at your level now) by God push you to. He wants you get to a place like Uzziah where you begin to disdain holy things.
II Chronicles 26:16, KJV
"But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense."
Don't get to where you see your being strong as an excuse not to ask for further help again. You can then despise fellowship and prayer. Prayerlessness and not intimating with God again shows your sufficiency and independence of God.
Do you know what you have is what you may not ask for? When a man is totally filled and lacks nothing, he can easily be tempted to say, "he needs not God." By the time realization will happen, a thing without remedy or difficult to remediate might have happened. When we pray, we ask for help. All of us are strong in degrees different from each other both in the spirit and the physical - as it concerns earth's goods. This doesn't mean we should cast away God. Ever be humble and continually ask for more. If you agree you're totally strong indeed, you won't know there's stronger after strong and strongest after stronger. With God, blessings and equipping are in levels. He'll test you with little to see if you'll follow still.
PRAYER: Lord, may I be like a child irrespective of your blessing on me. May I never stiff. I move on with you in my spiritual journey. The I've arrived sense won't satiate me.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Numbers 28:16-29:40, Luke 3:23-38, Psalm 62:1-12, Proverbs 11:18-19
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