FRIDAY - 19TH AUGUST, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
A WAY OF ESCAPE - Lead and Feed Series 017
I Kings 17:7, KJV
"And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land."
All of us would come to a day and a place where we'll need God to create a way out of something for us. Some will reach a dire point, the peak of it all where in hotness they'll cry to God and in desperation seek for a way of escape. Even if this would be the only moment such people would acknowledge there's God, may He in such day take thought for you.
Have you lost your job and you seem to have begun being in want? A process has begun and if there's no intervention, a giver may eventually become a beggar. But there's a work of intervention God does on the earth, He won't let you get where you'll be noticeably observed as being broke. The brook from which Elijah was taken life dried up but he was not embarrassed neither was he consumed by the famine because God orchestrated another way of escape for him to continue. You see, escape is what each of us can't but continually need. If we want to continue and live on in this life, we need an escape from God always. How often I enjoy God's salvation. Or else, we get trapped, fold up and go into extinction. You see, escape becomes important because we will always find ourselves in one mess or the other. Even if you're the most cautious, responsible, intelligent or smart; life and Satan will still create a need in your life even without your giving them any reason to do so. Meanwhile, some would have carelessness, jealousy and striving of people cause them damage. At some other times, we might be exonerated but at times we get punished with others and so need an escape or God's salvation.
Psalms 91:16, KJV
"With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation."
Salvation there means deliverance which is otherwise best interpreted as "escape." The brook dried up and that could have been predicted as the beginning of Elijah's end. All of us may begin to factor in what would happen to him if there was no intervention but God came through for him. God didn't allow his feet get dashed on a stone. Though he was already going through the process of being in want, God didn't let Him reach there. An instruction to Zarephath saved him. He was recovered and restored to his former days of abundance. Look, God is your goal keeper. He'll save you and put you back. You'll be offered another way of escape. After Brook Cherith comes the widow of Zarephath. One place that stops working is what gives ample opportunity to God to find you the next. Our "escape" is daily and often. We need salvation basically because we'll face a lot of evils in this world. Where your first livelihood is dying, may God find you another. To those losing hope and under fire, may God unburden you. He's under obligation to see to it that you continue and you will. So shall it be in Jesus name.
PRAYER: Lord, create a way of escape for me out of my own current temptation/challenge.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Esther 1:1-3:15; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34; Psalm 35:17-28; Proverbs 21:19-20
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