SUNDAY- 28TH MAY, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
BECAUSE YOU KNOW GOD IS WITH YOU - With Me Series 004
Genesis 13:8-9, KJV
"8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Brethren, because you know God is with you, it will influence your behaviour and dictate your action. Over the years, I've come across the hurly-burly of people to have it for themselves. This has led to intensive struggle and the massacring of relationships where necessary.
Today, it delights God to show you the confidence Abraham has which makes him say to Lot, "choose wherever you wish and then I will choose after you." This request shouldn't come from Abraham to Lot. It's rather the kind of tender that juniors make to their bosses in order to please and show their mark of surrenderness to him. I found out however that if you have God with you, just at your right hand, you will be generous with offers. You'll let people go first, choose first and decide first. You'll just have the confidence and know for sure that wherever you are is where the Lord is. Lot chose all the green valley of Jordan. He chose the best that is and Abraham his uncle through which he has all he boasts of stays in the land of Canaan.
However, you ought to ask with me what the confidence of Abraham was as to say his nephew should make his choice first. Is he not afraid of he being surpassed and left with an unfortunate choice of land that can't support him and his cattle? I'll say he has no fear of such and the reason is simple. He has experienced the fact that God is seriously committed to him before this time. So, he knew that it would always be good for him. Cast the die, the line would always fall for him in good places. His confidence is in God who called him out of his native land (Gen.12:1-2). That same God defended him by afflicting Pharaoh with plagues where he couldn't have spoken to defend himself (Gen.12:10-20). He had experienced God and seen His interest and commitment to him. He knows He's very close to him. He knows He's committed to making him great. He bears in mind what God promised him when he called him out - that he'll surely make him a blessing etc. From inference, it can't be to retrogression for him irrespective of wherever he stays therefore. It is on this note that Abraham said, "nephew, go ahead and make your choice." He opens the whole land to him. God could see his heart that he's also doing this so that quarrelsome and suspicious Lot wouldn't gainsay over him later to say his uncle caged him and relegated him to the background because he was beginning to be envious of what he's becoming. That's the crux of the matter.
Looking at this, this is the status of he I want to maintain. I want the wise to mark me and stay where I stay knowing assuredly that's where God will be. It is those who have no assurance of God with them who will seek to always look out to enforce their rights and defend it by themselves. They believe they have to always be on the lookout or else they'll be cheated with no recourse. So, they always build a bulwark and look at everybody with suspicion and potency of being cheats. When you know God is indeed with you, you don't mind who eats first, who chooses first and who goes first. You don't mind what men can do to you. You'll always ask, "what can man do to me since I have God who can turn every evil to good?" Look, if contenders leave the worst choice, out of your being God's beloved, God will repair that worst to satisfaction for you but to their covetousness and envy. They'll wonder why you always have the best eventually; why your worst can suddenly turn to bring favour. They'll wonder at how you can stay and sow in the land to still reap a hundred fold when others who have left for the covetous Egypt are still needy and covetous.
May God solidify you with His presence. May you see God's outworkings that'll seek to ascertain again and again He has a special interest in you. It is this that'll make you not to be overburdening, contesting and covetous in your dealings with men. They'll regard you as a liberal and total man of peace. You'll give them an array of choices knowing your own Lot is always preserved in the Lord.
PRAYER: Teach me and I shall be taught. Teach me to bring praises to Your name in my dealings with men.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 12:1-31; John 16:1-33; Psalm 119:65-80; Proverbs 16:4-5
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