TUESDAY - 8TH NOVEMBER, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
BECAUSE HE'S COMING - Large Place Series 023
Isaiah 40:3, KJV
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God."
God will come, He won't tarry. That one is sure. The more reason why we have to be hasty in preparing a way and then a highway for the Lord. The word, "prepare" signifies He has not come but will come. It signifies "our expectation." It also signifies the preparer of that way or highway isn't the user of the way to be prepared. He's rather taking thought for a visitor who will come and will need a channel to pass through.
Let's go to politics. When the Head of State for instance is to be received, what do they do? They'll go ahead of him and begin to make his way before his face. They don't begin to make ready at his appearance. Such fellow to come is one whose life can't be put in jeopardy. He carries the plan, dreams and aspirations for a whole nation of people. He must therefore be provided for. Every place must have been checked. Where snipers could take shots from must have been well marked out and mounted. All because they want to please him and don't want to inconvenience him in anyway.
What of God? Is He not worthy of this from us than any man? Shouldn't He have and meet our readiness and the preparation of our lives also so that at His own time, He might visit, minister and pass through us to the end users - the needy world. Alas, this is not the case. Many of us are dirty, polluted, perverted and we can best be described as being ignoble and unfit. We've been tainted by sin and we've refused to stretch forth our hands and be bound and led by the Holy Ghost. Due to this, if the Lord should take a mile's walk in our lives, He'll be hindered doing effectively what He ought to do. As a matter of fact, when He comes to call us like He reached to Ananias, we might not be at hand and available. We may not report immediately to duty and say "here I am (Acts 9:10)." Why are we full of roadblocks and things that make God detest a man and the Holy Spirit to be grieved when He even draws close to use him?
What's therefore the solution? Prepare a way. This is a conscious activity. You'll have to intelligently, resolutely and decisively do it. First, receive Christ as your Lord and Saviour if you haven't. Then, make a decision that you won't touch sin or live sin and any ignoble that defiles a man. You have the power or aid in you already. Then, pick up His yoke. Meaning, be ready to live by what He'll say you should live by daily. This is where you must die to who you think will be good for you to be in order to become a fool who lacks his own way but waits on God to author it for him. I tell you beforehand, it won't be easy at first but you'll survive, enter into this mainstream life and actively see what you've missed these years.
PRAYER: I submit my vessel is purity for use.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezekiel 12:1-14:11; Hebrews 7:1-17; Psalm 105:37-45; Proverbs 27:3
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