SUNDAY - 28TH NOVEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
APPRENTICED EARLY - Purpose Series 002
READ I Samuel 17:1-35
I Samuel 17:32-33, KJV
"32And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
If you will have a space between the strong and the mighty, you must be apprenticed early. I have seen young chaps being apprenticed to learn a particular vocation. From a tender age, their concentration is being leaned down to a thing to marry and excel in. This is what makes them see the ins and outs of that profession and learn its intricacies. It therefore becomes difficult for someone to call black white for them. They already have its revelation. One who starts in his youth is different from an adult who's trying to begin something in his adulthood. The beginning is always humiliating. So, the time of cultivating anything from its grassroots ought to be your youthful days - when you're easily not embarrassed, full of strength and could make mistakes and still amend. Consider this truth in the light of having education. Imagine if you're just enrolling in a primary school now. How will you feel? When your mates are already part of the labour force, earning and meeting needs, you are just starting school. Not being early apprenticed is a curse. Today, deliver yourself like a roe from the hunter. See what and where you should be pumping diligence to which will bear on your future and give such attention. I was listening to a Nigerian minister and General Overseer, he said his friends in ministry do envy him for a thing. That he started earlier. This starting earlier has made him to cover grounds more than others. His profit appears to all undeniably. He himself is grateful he began then. If he were called now to come and begin what he began sometimes ago, he may never start since career might have won his attention and he has given much labour there which he'll like to reap. This is why some adults can't live to start some things now. They'll say, "I don't have time to see it through. I've already gone far in one". If you don't know, that lament is regret since all of us only has a life to live.
Saint, in all you'll do, quickly enrol at the time of enrolment. Gates do close. Once you begin to leave your youthful days, you may lose desire in what once obsesses you and which you should have been called to. Desire do fail.
Ecclesiastes 12:5, KJV
"... and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:"
Obsession is not ordinary. It reveals itself in the pathway of your soul to separate you to a field. Your field which may not be another's. Ask adults, they don't usually get appetite over what is driving the youths now. Eyes have seen all and is now contented. Don't let your fate be cemented. Goliath joined the force at his youth and so rose through the ranks and became a general. A champion must first be proved before becoming one. Promotion takes time. It consumes years. If you start on this lonely journey now, God willing, your testimony will be that you can't be pushed aside because you've been there since your youth. If you can tear yourself away from other things contesting for you, you'll see what it means to be dedicated to a call. You'll make a name to God's glory and honour to yourself for heeding. Those God has given obsession to, that's your opportunity to be glorified.
PRAYER: Lord, may the obsession in me for where I should be not die. Use it to tilt me to my vocation for life.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 4:1-37, 2 Peter 1:1-21, Psalm 119:97-112, Proverbs 28:17-18
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