THURSDAY - 5TH AUGUST, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
ONE THROUGH WHICH WE'RE BEATEN INTO ALIGNMENT
Proverbs 30:29-30, KJV
"29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: 30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any"
Begin to imagine a path especially a thin path. If the lion is coming at one end and any other beast walks towards him from another end, the Bible says, "that other animal would be the one to turn away from the path for the lion." Its fear is always feared. So, what the lion wants as a desire to be implemented is always implemented over other animals. The lion doesn't seek to conform or adjust to what other beasts wants or seem to have set as the rules of the jungle; it is other beasts that moves, shifts to upgrade with what he calls best and has been made known by an unwritten code in the jungle.
The lion is regarded as king amidst all beasts. He is the measurement by which others are measured. He is the standard. Other animals will dance to his tune. He doesn't play down. He remains with what he has known and believed to be true and just while others must swiftly take dressing to align with that. There has never been a story of a beast turning down this request to be uniform with the lion's request. What's the lion's request, will or command? "I turn not away from any. I will remain on this trail but all others must turn away and align to my demand of leaving the trail for me to walk. Once I pass, they can then resume their walk." There has never been a traffic jam on the trail a lion takes. Even if there are as he comes, it automatically clears itself without a voice raised or a roar made.
Are you seeing a kind of injustice in the jungle? God made it so. Did you see power that can't be challenged?
So also, there's a measurement by which we're measured. When it comes to the contest of wills, God won't turn away for you. You will be the one to turn. That doesn't mean if you insist, God can't succumb and let you have the permissive will you're bending for. If you'll allow however, if you want a thing as a believer but God is saying no to that very choice; what God is saying is, "you, align or shift position in what you want to what I want." He is the lion by which we're called to the higher standard or what has been laid down by Him as best for observant. God is greater than us. He even begat us and like the lion in the jungle, He should have the last say over us. If you're saying this and God's Spirit is interjecting you to keep your peace, you better allow it. You better go on vacation for what the dictate of God at that time is to come to pass.
The lion is walking a path. Another animal is walking same path but once their paths want to cross where it seems an argument of who should wait for the other to pass would ensue, all the beasts know who should wait. No one seeks to do contrary. If animals could be this obedient to a higher authority, what happens to humans and the human government issuing God's decrees? What happens to obedience to God Himself?
The key to winning in life is to allow God always win over your choice, will, desire and ambition. You know better but He knows best. Always agree to align to what He'll deem fit as demands. Check carefully, what's God calling me to align with at this moment? Let your obedience starts from there.
PRAYER: Lord, grant me willingness to obey. Where dropping my will for Yours is hard, do comfort me. I shift and meet up with the standard You've created to be met.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Samuel 2:12-3:39, John 13:1-30, Psalm 119:1-16, Proverbs 15:29-30
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