WEDNESDAY - 21ST SEPTEMBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT - Open Heaven Series 013
Read Acts 10:8-16
Acts 10:11,13, KJV
"11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat."
God took me over yesterday and I'd said, "He loves us first and desires us for Himself." "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom.5: 8). If you know this, you'll be assured He really desires you because He Himself initiated the process of connecting with you even while you were still lost in sin. Do you think He wants to hide Himself away from you though He desires being sought diligently? He does only as not to cast what is holy before swine. Those who come to Him He shall in no wise cast out and those who seek Him are same who shall find Him because God is said "to be a rewarder of they that diligently seek Him" (Heb.11:6). In today's reading, an aircraft descended. I call it "vessel craft." It was bearing all sorts of goodies like the Ishmaelite merchants whose stores afford all sorts of goods (Gen.37:25). What sort of invention do you desire to see? That vessel carries it! Anything, spiritual or physical (that's a good and perfect gift) that God in His wisdom has approved fitting for mankind is what it bears though bearing literally animals. Now, same is lowered unto mankind from above. Heaven's desire to relate with the earth is being established once more. Here they come! Foreign emissaries and tangibilities. Here he lies, a representative of all mankind in his sleep. Here goes a command to him to "rise, kill and eat." To our shock, mankind refuses the gift of Immortality. He has been told, "possess, walk towards and have some for yourself, show your willingness and obedience by accepting the offer we have brought to you from heaven, participate in what we're about doing" but thrice did he stubbornly rebuff God.
Then I heard God, "it is no longer in my hands when mankind rejects the provision of Jesus offered them as the final sacrifice for sin and remission of it (Heb. 10:12). He has been so much available and lowered to them that people now have Moses (in ministers on earth today) and the law (in the Bible) to instruct them. How could you then deny so great a salvation that has appeared to all men? How could you make nonsense of the provision that costs heaven His only begotten son and which they solely prepared for you with the intention that you'll see its importance and take same. God told me, "I can't force Myself on you. I might tell you what to do with the sacrifice of Jesus for you (the sheet lowered within your arm's length) but I can't force you to accept it by "rising, killing and eating same." God said you must show willingness and obedience on what I have lowered down for you (in Jesus Who laid His life down) and be a beneficiary of His death and resurrection. Like Peter said he has not eaten anything unclean before, many there be who are giving reasons upon reasons, heaps of reasons as to why they aren't yet born again or taken of this suffered, crucified, dead and resurrected Jesus? I pray for you that at the time this offer is being made you, you'll rise, kill and eat. The Bible says, "if ye be willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land" but what will happen to rebels? (Isa.1:19-20). May you receive this Christ and know eternal life (John 3:18). May you show willingness at the time of willingness. There's always a time when the charmer can't charm the snake again. It is appointed unto man to die once. After that comes judgement. Therefore "today is the day of salvation." Do not harden your hearts like the former times. God has winked at your past but now commands you to repent (Acts 17:30).
PRAYER: I'm sorry for hardening my heart at Your so great salvation till now. I submit and accept Jesus' finished works.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isaiah 33:10-36:22; Galatians 5:13-26; Psalm 64:1-10; Proverbs 23:23
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