SATURDAY - 4TH DECEMBER, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
SEPARATION TO THE ACADEMY - Purpose Series 008
Read Galatians 1:15-24
I Samuel 1:22, KJV
"But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever."
There's a place known as the academy in reality. There's pedagogy yet there's an instructor and then the instructed. To immerse a learner into full studies and learning of his equipping, he may need to be separated to the academy. When Hannah tore Samuel off at a young age to begin to learn his purpose, it was a separation to a specific place that represents the academy. The place was headed by Eli. You could call him the school principal. Hophni and Phinehas were as well instructors and assistants to him. This is where Samuel was torn off to. In Hannah's own word, that he may abide in the Lord's house forever. The academy gets you ready for a life you'll one day live forever. This is being given, dedicated and consecrated to a service. In this case, the Lord's.
It's in this academy that contacts are made with young flowering men and women who have discovered their place in this place (the earth). There, those who have become instruct them to become and take their shine amidst the great and strong. Brethren, there's a place where concentrated studies is taken place. Though it is not always that God requires a separation to a formal setting like this for equipping, yet God will instruct you either in an academy or in the field. Even Paul, he said he didn't confer with flesh and blood but rather went to the desert of Arabia immediately [Gal.1:17].
In the academy, only weaned students are desired. They don't want those whose training will start and the thoughts of home will occupy them. The academy is a place of separation for grooming. When Samuel was taken to this hostel as a boarding student, it wasn't interesting at all on Hannah. Those of you parents who have children in the boarding school especially your first, last or beloved child, did you not weep and feel uncomfortable letting him ago. Meanwhile, if you want your child to become a man to be praised and watched for his accomplishments tomorrow, off to the academy he must go. Consider Samuel's first night in the academy. He was probably crying all around. It was just a horrible start. Samuel himself just knew the mother's face and figure faintly when the mother broke him off to the process that makes kings in that field. The Bible recorded that Hannah's visit was only once in a year.
I Samuel 2:18-19, KJV "18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. 19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice."
You could call it Samuel's open day. He receives a new gift that once in a year from his mum. They'd spent time to catch up on things happening at home. Thank God all these sacrifices of costly separation and denial didn't end in vain. Samuel was able to focus on his training at the institution until he started picking calls of God when He calls. This is how he progressed to pass all his courses like Integrity 404, Morality 101, Divine Communication 200. At last, Samuel was certified by God Himself as one that has learnt Him faithfully. God certified this to be true by making all he says come to pass. It's an approval unto, "this is my beloved son". Yet, it started in tearing him off to the academy. If need be for you to congregate at the academy for specific training, do. This is also a message to all caregivers to let their children go to be with purpose early in the academy. There's rarely a field now that doesn't have its institution. Bear the pain once and bear the joy of it forever.
PRAYER: I shall not miss training time. I receive insight to submit to godly training wherever I find myself.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1
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