MONDAY - 21ST NOVEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
ARE YOU JUST KNOWING? - Entry Series 001
READ Luke 2:40-50
Luke 2:44-45, KJV
"44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him."
It is a day something will begin. The day something starts may not be the day you are notified of it. Awareness is therefore important in tracking and discerning what has been done, what is being done or will be done. Today, just like the Lord asked me to teach me, He's putting same question in my mouth to ask you. "Are you just knowing? When you just know is when turn around could happen. If you discover late, it's then you can begin to put in preparation to turn back. In this life, there are two people. Those that discover at the point of entry or happening of an event and those that discover a great while - when the journey has been made and a time or season has passed over the event. That's when they're discovering. Such people are late discoverers and late discoverers are always late possessors.
This place concerns Joseph and Mary, the mother of Jesus. After the feast, their presumptuousness didn't put them at alert to discover that Jesus (twelve then) had stayed back at the temple or church as we'll call it in our day. They thought and reasoned automatically that He must be amidst the company or great crowd of relative and friend that they took the journey together. They did not see Him and they did not enquire because of that presumption. At this time, they didn't have any entry or insight into the fact that Jesus has been left behind. As a matter of fact, they were not troubled because it has not come to their senses that they've 'lost' a boy - a whole human being and a special child for that matter. When they knew, the heat hit them and they sought to journey back to locate Him. However, when did they know? That's the question we should answer. They didn't know immediately. They knew after going a day. Imagine discovering that you left your child at a place you had visited after 24 hours had passed. If people hear, with what salute will they greet you as a parent? Under whatsoever excuse and reason you have to give, they'll call you careless and nonchalant. This their late discovery now costs them to turn around and about to journey back to the past they had left behind to obtain what they should have obtained and put on the journey with them. Your not discovering earlier doesn't cancel the journeying back to address the matter. If a problem entered into a Christian brother's or sister's life at 23 and he had journeyed for awhile before discovering it, he will still turn back even at 46 to address it. Mandate is laid on him to turn back since what he has left behind is 'can't do without". So that you won't serve twice when you could have served once, God said I should ask you to check yourself, people around you etc to discover if something strange is happening or has happened that you need to fetch out and deal with immediately. What has entered into your business, marriage, ministry etc that you haven't found out now yet you're journeying at full speed when you should first stop to address it. God said, "wait, turn back and go and deal with the matter you left not dealt with." Is it until your spouse brings you divorce papers to sign that reality will hit you? It has been happening for long. The nursing of love for another has been going on under the carpet. Know now!
There's no journeying into the future without Jesus also. If He dropped or alighted from your vehicle just yesterday, stop at where you discover. Don't say, "I've gone a day's journey. I've spent energy and resources. I can't go back to the source or foundation to make corrections again." Those excuses if you successfully give them will make you not have a future. Today, go back. Look back and make amendments on all things that happened in the past which determines the future.
PRAYER: Lord, as your prophet has said, give me a knowing of all matters that should be addressed which had happened or is happening. I receive sensitivity to be aware promptly, on time and on the spot.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 42:1-43:27, James 5:1-20,Psalm 119:1-16, Proverbs 28:6-7
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