WEDNESDAY - 27TH APRIL, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
GIVE IT AWAY IMMEDIATELY - Vow Series 001
Read I Samuel 1
I Samuel 1:24, KJV
"And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young."
It is hard giving away but you must learn to give away. It could even become harder when you make a vow. Have you observe that after making a vow, fulfilment of same always seems too high. That's why conclusively, the Bible admonishes you not to vow at all if you won't keep it (Eccl.5:4-5). Rather, simply pray on your requests and don't be a vain speaker because God won't hold you guiltless. Hannah vowed unto the Lord. It was a vow of agony and extreme bitterness. She's been under besetting mockery from Peninnah whose quiver is full of arrows.
I Samuel 1:11, KJV
"And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head."
At the weaning of baby Samuel, Hannah didn't tarry, she refused to delay but rather tore Samuel off herself to the the Lord as vowed. How easy is this? Couldn't she have changed her mind after birthing Samuel? She could but she did not. Try imagining someone who has been reproached for years who now has one that she should take comfort in but which something suddenly collects same from her. How easy would it be? Some people would have said, "God, let us revisit this thing. What would people say if they hear I'm no longer with child. Won't they call me wicked for wanting to cut off such a kid as this?" It is at moment like this that people suddenly become reasonable. Previously, they were ruled by extravagant emotion. Many of such didn't consider what they were saying well while vowing. They thought the mightiness of their words is what would compel God to answer them. So, they swell and swear big and at the end shelves the responsibility - which is keeping their own side. The mercy in vowing is that you set the terms yourself: both yours and God. God doesn't impose or tell you what He'll agree on before He blesses you. So, you'll be sincerely and indeed guilty if at last what you said you would do seems too big to you to now do.
We should learn from Hannah who's a human of like passion like us all. I knew she faced her temptation of keeping Samuel longer but she didn't. She disciplined herself having known a rule that the more I keep this boy with me, the more it becomes difficult cutting him off to the Lord later. Nothing in her vow stipulates sending off Samuel to the Lord's house at such a tender age when he gets weaned. When Hannah said, "and I would give him to the Lord all the days of his life", she could have done that at a later age of Samuel and not at weaning but I suppose her conscience bore her witness to release the boy at such a tender age and then after weaning. To Hannah, "and I'll give him to God all the days of his (Samuel's) life" is justified to begin after weaning. That's what her conscience allowed and she didn't violate it though really tough to do for any mother. That's why as soon as Samuel was weaned, she closed her eyes and pretend to be a wicked mother but sent him to the academy of the prophets that soonest and immediately. Her vow was to release the boy and she was quick to make it good. Samuel departed to the prophet's academy so early that the Bible witnessed, "and the child was young." I knew everybody must have wondered at the absurdity of such mother to have cut off such a little child away from herself yet at such a tender age. It costs her but she paid her part of the vow fully. Hannah isn't a spirit but a human. Learn from her and not delay to pay your vow or all other already prescribed obligations to the Lord i.e tithe. The more you delay, the easier it becomes forgetting and harder to redeem. So, as soon as you receive alert, let it be the first thing you cast out from you. Revere God this much and He'll take cognizance of you the more.
PRAYER: Father, show me my irredeemable vows and I shall make them good. Help me to keep any future ones and restrain my lips from quickly vowing.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Judges 6:1-40; Luke 22:54-23:12; Psalm 95:1-96:13; Proverbs 14:5-6
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