TUESDAY - 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHY THEY CARRY A MISSIONARY AWAY
READ II Kings 5:1-19
II Kings 5:2, KJV
"2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife."
When God wants to penetrate a place which for some reasons is difficult to penetrate, one of the things God subtly does is to allow somebody to be carried away to such place. I hope you've heard of wind or water dispersed seeds that are carried from one place to the other. The air or the water is the means by which they're spread. Now, why the carrying away? God knows the need for a preacher.
Romans 10:14-15, KJV
"14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!"
Syria carries a young girl away from Israel when it's raided. This girl obviously knows God and must have tasted of God's power. She must have been one of many who with joy mounts up to the house of the Lord.
She was carried off but her content was not known. Nobody knows she contains the Bible and some soul winning valuables. As God would position her amidst the so many people carried captive, she was posted to wait on Naaman's wife - an influence in the land that could influence the whole nation. She must have been serving them as the Bible that the heathen reads before she subtly but in a relaxing way slicks in the gospel. She said unto her mistress, "would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy."
Naaman didn't know God nor his household. The journey to a nation knowing God starts many times in this way. That's how his leprosy was cleansed by Elisha. Naaman having been won by the power of God and His free gift requested for sand from Israel to build an altar where he'll serve Jehovah in his country. That means he took the gospel back to Syria. After his cleansing, you'll see that that little missionary wasn't released to go back to Israel. She must have been given free hands to serve God in her master's house better than before. If her faith had been secretive, she now has a ground to bring it into the open in the entire household. I so much believe that Naaman after being won might have asked her to explain the scriptures to him like the Ethiopian eunuch requested of Philip. Look, God is a subtle God. Naaman has a problem and God meets it. It's difficult for somebody to reject you whose life's long need you met. There are high officials in many nations of the world that for the gospel to reach, you'll have to focus on their problems and not first Christ. They won't be offended like that. They'll so much see you as caring until it is too way long for them to recover from all you've done.
Did you notice that girl only speaks about meeting the need of her master? She didn't say "first get born again". That only follows after the miracle. Miracle is a sign to the heathen (John 4:48).
Your positioning where you are is strategic. Are you an air hostess who by your positioning serves highly placed people? Let God shows you the need of the nobles on board and sure capitalize on that to get them saved. Even the devil makes people sin by finding an already open space into their lives.
If you're kidnapped as a Christian or mistakenly carried away somewhere, it is for a purpose. As long as you will disperse abroad the seed of the gospel, God has no problem keeping and feeding you even in a foreign land. There are places where a shoot at sight has been issued against the Bible. One of such is North Korea. The Bible is seen as herald of Western culture. Under that pretext, God is shut out. In North Korea, the government and the ruling family are God and should be so treated. While there are other nations who haven't decreed outrightly against the Bible, their systems are built to resist Christianity or its flowering as well. Can God smuggle you into this sort of places? When you go on State or whatsoever scholarship to such places, consider yourself an undercover agent for Christ but not with obvious identity that reveals you as an evangelist or missionary.
God penetrated some difficult lands just on a visit of a gospel bearer who sows the seed. He's considered a tourist yet a missionary in disguise. We all have a call this morning to see to it that this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is preached everywhere in the earth. That includes nations and places that locks it out. May you be found an available vessel to sow what will become a national salvation to a person - especially an influential citizen.
PRAYER: Father, teach me the art of evangelism. Sensitize me to people's needs for evangelism. May you always give us a Naaman or an Ethiopian Eunuch that could preach to the rest.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 3:16-6:14, Hebrews 4:1-16, Psalm 104:24-35, Proverbs 26:27
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