WEDNESDAY - 4TH JANUARY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
WE'VE BEEN FOREWARNED
Read Matthew 7:13-14
Matthew 7:13, KJV
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:"
I'll say we've all be forewarned and as it is rightly put, "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." When God - the Lover of our souls and our caring Father says, "enter ye in by the strait gate", what propels that? Love! You're shocked? He's simply telling us what choice He wants us pick. God says in Deuteronomy 30:19, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
What sort of teacher is God who sets exam questions yet helps His students to pass? Have you seen a teacher who sets the questions and yet suggests the answers to the students? That's what God voluntarily does in those words of Joshua and whenever you see such, it's because we're beloved and we're earnestly being protected from getting lost. God admonished us to "enter in by the strait gate" and then gives us a reason for that. He said, "for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction." Imagine that, imagine what God wants you to escape. Though you've not yet reached where the consequence would speak yet God is helping you determine your eternal home and what reward you'll have by giving you an expo on which gate to enter in or through. It is not the wide gate but the strait. Has God not by Himself given us the answer and what choice to make? If He blatantly tells us to "enter by the narrow gate", is that not a clear instruction enough to jettison the wide gate/broad way?
One man by the name Joshua lived this subtly out also. He said "if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15, KJV).
If the high leader, Joshua himself who received direct communication from the Lord could say, "He'll serve the Lord with his household", does it not become a mandate and a necessity on anyone to make the choice of serving the Lord. He has subtly shown others what choice to make and the wise would follow and escape any consequence of doing otherwise. God has finished His love for us by showing us what choice to make. He warned us this early as to arm us against the consequences that follow neglect of the way. I pray that this instruction of the Lord that says, "enter ye in by the strait gate" will be obeyed by you so that you may escape the wide door (that allows anything and places no restriction on you) but which at day's end leads to destruction of a man's life here on earth and later his soul. Shalom.
PRAYER: I make the choice to live. I choose the strait gate. I receive Christ and embrace His ways..
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 8:1-10:32; Matthew 4:12-25; Psalm 4:1-8; Proverbs 1:20-23
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