THURSDAY - 19TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
UNTIL THE STORM
Jonah 1:5, KJV
"15 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
There's difference between the storm rises and it becomes defiant. In today's passage, the storm rose at the ship bearing Jonah. Everybody was fine and no one took thought to call the supernatural into their natural, divinity or a deity into their humanness until what was working for them stopped working. The ship was having good sail until the Lord sent against it a wind.
Jonah 1:4, KJV
"But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken."
It was this that brought them to the place of calling for help. That place says, "the ship got where it threatened to break or was about to break." If it breaks, they know what danger they would be in. So, they cried to their gods. These were heathen mariners yet they prayed. There's no one on earth that has not prayed, is not praying or will not pray to someone even if He doesn't give that acknowledgement to God Almighty.
Look, man will always get to a place where his training, education, experience and everything that's human can't surmount what faces him again. On that note, he'll need an external help. Even at such time, such men don't mind where it comes from. That's even why some Christians backslide after trusting God for a breakthrough but which tarries. If it could be gotten elsewhere, they'll do. Man seeks relieve in trouble and this can in turn make him acknowledge God or any god. Mind you, another human can substitute God also.
Sense of dignity isn't maintained when one gets to this brink of life where death matters. You immediately fling away your estimation for yourself and cry unto the place where you believe your help can come from. Since you're a Christian, that's God.
Jesus in His own days in the flesh prayed to God in a described manner that shows His helplessness. You too, when your day comes, you'll pray. Those days are not interesting. They come to humble us and show us we are humans who shouldn't be divorced from the supernatural or God.
Look, there are many things you can do for yourself but once same get out of hand, transfer the issue in prayer. Mariners are familiar with storm but when this one began to get out of hand, they knew to pray. Who knows when last they prayed as an act of obedience and loyalty but that day, they were forced to cry unto their god. What's the lesson?Let not your desperate situation force prayers on you. Rather, enforce prayers on your situation. Pray before trouble comes. Preemptive prayers preserves you the future.
PRAYER: Lord, I overcome any current storm. Glory over it.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Ezra 10:1-44, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20, Psalm 31:9-18, Proverbs 21:3
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