SATURDAY - 16TH APRIL, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
DON'T SELL IT OUT - Don't Downgrade Yourself Series 002
Read Judges 4
Judges 4:8, KJV
"And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go".
This statement shows the male man as incapable, shivering and needing assurance here. Don't you ever think it was a blessing to him. It was not because it devalued him and transferred his honour and reward to the women. While this teaching is not revealing or calling females inferior yet we all know that women themselves agree without qualms that men should take the lead while they submit to them. Here, it was reversed.
God had a work to do. He voiced it out through Deborah, the prophetess and gave it to Barak. What a privilege to be sighted by the Almighty Who has so many people badgering Him for their allocation and assignment. This precious opportunity that some are dying to receive from glory on high however was rejected by Barak. You don't mean it! Tell me something please. He said, "I'm not contending God called me. No problem Prophetess Debby. You know what? I won't move an inch unless the vessel giving this prophecy and I go together". Come and see trouble and mourning in heaven that day. All angels turned to God and said, "Sir, are you seeing that unserious brother?" God said, "very well." Deborah looked at him again and wondered if he meant it. The sternness of not yielding, not agreeing on Barak's face must have served as enough message to her. With that observation, she didn't fight to change his mind that, "but you were the one God gave charge of this assignment." She didn't at all. Deborah who understood how things work with God; who knew that in all labour, there's profit; that it's what you sow you'll reap and that God is not unjust as to forget our labour of love in that we have ministered in His vineyard then quickly grab the opportunity. Do you want me show you how she accepted the offer?
Judges 4:9, KJV
"And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh".
This agreement is not different from the exchange of gold for brass. My Jesus! It is like exchanging glory for glamour. Why would Barak be contented submitting victory to the women clique? However, Deborah agreed to it at bargaining time to collect the reward and honour for womanhood and females). Somebody sold it out and somebody collected it!
Let us teach our males, our boys, our men and our fathers not to compromise their stand. I'm not driving at competition here but if God visits somebody with an assignment and he says, "I'm not interested or not enough for it", God will be forced to make a rearrangement. The same thing happened to Sir Moses. God didn't ordain Aaron would be his mouth (Exodus 4:10-16). Why do people love to carry unnecessary luggage that God has not brought them? Enh? Don't force the hands of God into slashing your rewards. Don't set another standard. If you however will say "no" as the first God visited with the assignment, then God will take that same assignment and its honour and give it to your neighbour. So, let all irrespective of gender seek not to be passed by either by rejecting the assignment wholly or seeking to share it with others when God hasn't make provision for one. Don't pass it over or sell it out. God set that the honour of that assignment would be Barak's or men's but when he reset the terms of the assignment himself, a woman had to carry the trophy. If not, probably Sisera wouldn't need run to seek asylum let alone being killed by Jael. Please, don't give yourself a jungle to clear when the Lord is only allotting a clean passage. Don't hand it over. Do the assignment wholly. Stop unnecessary, unwitty job delegation and partnership which the Lord didn't plan for you.
PRAYER: Lord,may I not reject You and Your offer. Those who reject your offer or resets its condition can't but lose or miss something.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Joshua 11:1-12:24; Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 13:5-6
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