SATURDAY - 12TH MARCH, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
IF YOU'LL STILL BE ABOVE ONLY!
Read Job 1:1-12
Deuteronomy 28:13, KJV
"And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; IF THAT THOU HEARKEN UNTO THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH I COMMAND THEE THIS DAY, TO OBSERVE AND TO DO THEM"
That place says, "You shall be above only". "Above only" could also read, "Upward only". If you say a thing is above, it stands to reason that something or things are underneath. A thing that is above is marked by being superior and being clearly demarcated by a line of separation from things below. Above only! It means you'll sail. It means you won't sink. Now, if you want to maintain this covenant position, you must not break the hedge. No matter how excellently built a ship is, its undoing begins when water starts to gain entrance into it through any damaged part. Yet, if you ask, "was that ship built to sail?" The engineers would say "yes". Any ship is built to sail and any Christian is by covenant designed to tend upward only but we know what damage, loss and destruction sin and offence could bring. Now, if the ship built to sail sinks (when it was not built to sink), we should find out why what the engineers designed to stay afloat all through its life is doing the exact opposite of its calling. Have we not read that there may be manifestations at the present that deviates from the intentions of the originator at the beginning.
Matthew 19:8, KJV
"He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so".
I pray for you that you'll manifest and manifest continually the intention of the Originator. If a ship sinks, it may lead to the questioning of its builder but we ought to trace why and at the discovery, we can't but say, "this current manifestation isn't the intended because at the beginning, it was not intended so." If all laws of sailing aren't compromised, it should sail.
A Christian who's above only is one who's undefeatable in the battles of life. He can't but win. But tell that Christian that for any to be above only and maintain the winning position, he has terms to keep with God. The hedge is what God built round any Christian to protect his success and victories. You can't break terms of your covenant with the Maker and not be vulnerable to the enemy to touch. Grace may last you for awhile like it did to Samson but a voice would always ask, "Can we continue in sin and say grace should abide?". Job didn't sin before he was touched but we saw the reality of being vulnerable when the hedge is removed for any reason - but on the occasion we're treating, by sin. Brethren, tell that ship not to boast of how excellently built it is or of what quality material it was built of. Just like a breaking of the hedge gives a handle to Satan to come in to steal, kill and destroy, so shall the damaging of the ship invite water that could sink the ship. And so, we have a shocking saying that "a ship could sail on water but do also sink in it". However, we ought learn on what conditions it floats and on what conditions such sinks. This would help us know what to abide with and clear off from. The covenant position of being above only is known to hinge on "if thou obey the commandments of the Lord thy God to do all that He has commanded you". Crested on this, no shaking even if the earth be removed and planted in the oceans.
PRAYER: Teach me the faithfulness of the Faithful. Reconstruct Your hedge round me. I'm forgiven and the covenant reactivated.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Numbers 15:17-16:40; Mark 15:1-47; Psalm 54:1-7; Proverbs 11:5-6
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