TUESDAY - 31ST AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
GOD IS A CHEAT
READ Deuteronomy 30
Deuteronomy 30:19, KJV
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Don't defend God. He is a cheat. What sort of teacher gives exams to his students and yet shows them the answer to pick. Are options not before them? Have they not being taught? Shouldn't he leave them to now make their choice? That's a teacher but not God.
God is a jealous God who cares to the extreme for His children. While coaching the Israelites on what their attitude to be as they warm up to possess Canaan that's before them, he told them he has placed before them life and death (a summary of all He has been saying) and that they should choose life. After God sets these two options before them, you'll think He'll leave them to themselves to choose which one seems good in their own eyes. No, He didn't. He rather whispers to their ears after setting the exam questions and placing it before them what answer they should but pick. This is where God is a cheat. What teacher sets the paper for his students to be tested after a thorough teaching yet guides them diligently up to the answer? That's what God rather does.
When you have a biological father like God, to miss it is going to be hard. It will take both the devil and life conspiring together to make you fail. Why did I say that? Your father would do all in his capacity to see that you excel over life and win over Satan. God doesn't want them miss it. Despite the answer to the question being "life" as set before them, do you know some could still have gone for "death." It is then you'll wonder whether those ones have not been hearing the sermon God has been preaching since the beginning of that chapter before setting the choices before them. We can not be much baffled because after teaching students in the classroom what their answers should be in the examination, they still do go for the wrong one. That's why God took initiative, instituted Himself to guard against this likely mistake.
Today, may God institute into your life people who will have more than a passing interest in you. I mean those who will want to sacrifice everything to see you're properly guided and eventually makes it. The heavenly Father is such a beautiful One who cares not only for our life on earth but in the afterworld. This propels Him to telling us to choose life.
How many of you have chosen life? If you're still in the kingdom of darkness, you have not. You have to be translated into light, the kingdom of His dear son, in whom we have redemption, even the forgiveness of sins, (Colossians 1:13-14). Until then, you have not chosen life but death. Submit to God today and receive Jesus as your Lord and Saviour.
There's no profit in choosing death over life. God has seen that which is why He went all the way to teach and teach the Israelites to choose and prefer life above death. This is not the matter of 'they have eyes to see'. It is the matter of wanting you to make it. A matter of life and death. God wouldn't have done that if He doesn't want you make it. He knows if life is not chosen, it is death. If you therefore choose death, your life isn't secured. He won't allow you make this costly mistake that would result into eternal blame in eternal flame. A reason why God has chosen to leak the answer to you now. The answer to what God said you should choose has been stealthily told you, "LIFE." Go for it! Shade that as the answer this morning please.
PRAYER: Thanks for Your counsel and multitude of good thoughts for me. May You ever delight in me as to properly guide me to life. May I not miss step with You.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Job 23:1-27:23, 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:11, Psalm 41:1-13, Proverbs 22:5-6
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