SATURDAY - 10TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THOSE GOD SEEKS TO KILL!
READ Exodus 4:19-26
Exodus 4:24, KJV
"And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him."
What is this? Why would the Lord seek to kill His messenger? The Lord has just given Moses his call and with instructions on what he should say to Pharaoh once he gets to his field. But, why would the Lord act contrastingly and seek to kill him?
May you not become a reprobate. May you not get here. As you journey step by step and line by line into becoming a reprobate, may it be that you'll have nipped it in the bud, once and for all and upon an earlier correction. Further steps of disobedience may be regarded as open defiance that may warrantee the Holy Spirit leaving you to yourself. He'll regard it as you grieving Him but we have an instruction.
Ephesians 4:30, KJV
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."
Don't forget He's a perfect gentleman who you must not offend. He'll strive with you but He'll also not always strive with you (Gen.6:3). Meaning, He can eventually let you be. However, seek not to have Him conquered in your life by refusing and refuting to act on a commanded area. Being a delicate Spirit, you must seek to incline to Him whenever He brings you a word for a season (that may even be correction) but which must be acted on. No human likes telling another something repeatedly that he won't do. That's why such humans would eventually go silence and let such disobedient alone. However, you must seek never to get here - where you'll be without divine voice or sound (communication). Those who did are always on Satan's ground and into his teeth soonest.
Moses has a gray area in his life though he's the called of God. He's the anointed we can say. He's the man appointed of God and deliberately chosen to bring out God's people from the house of bondage but He is openly causing disinterest to God. Despite confrontations and many corrections, this slip of Moses was still not taken care of. What you must know is that God is no respecter of persons. Though Moses be a man of God yet God came to hold him accountable to the utmost standard. God doesn't lower His standard for any even though we are His beloved and we're accepted in Jesus Christ. The foundation of God still stands sure bearing this seal... (II Tim.2:19). "Let every man that calls on the name of Christ depart from iniquity". There's no time when refusal to God in an area won't become sin to you eventually if you choose to persist. Thank God, the Bible also warns that we "abstain from all appearance of evil" (I Thes.5:22). Even if that thing is not outright evil but a shade of it with just a dot or tittle concentration of evil or such that could ever be counted as evil or become sin, the Bible still advises that we flee from it. Here's God justified over you and I or anybody who seeks to persist in refusal that could outrightly label him as sinning and therefore make him a sinner. Anything that you know indulgence in it could eventually lead to sin ought to be abstained from all together. This will be your protection instead of opening yourself to a strife and continuous struggle with the Holy Ghost.
The matter between Moses and God is one thing - circumcision. God commanded Abraham on circumcision (Gen.17:9-14). It'll be a token of His covenant with the Hebrews. Moses must have tarried long enough in not circumcising his son (which may be because he's a respecter of persons (his wife who's not an Israelite). Until the Lord says, "now or else", no deliberate action was taken on that pending instruction. As a Christian, don't get where God uses concrete authority to address you. If God begins to force your hands or body into action on certain matters, it only reveals you as an unyielding clay. You're just not fit for moulding. But that's the situation in which Brother, Minister and Anointed Moses found himself? He was regarding his wife until God's wrath is beginning to be incurred. Let me ask you ministers especially, what is your highest love that can put you in trouble with God? Go and slay that Isaac and prove to God He has no rival. But if you won't, just know that you can't be used. Or let me say, "you can't be used unhindered."
It is this situation Moses' wife - Zipporah seeks therefore to ameliorate. She knows what gray area exists between Moses and God. The husband must have disclosed to her the need for circumcision over time but she might just have been unwilling. She might have by murmuring objected to it and in so doing incapacitates Moses. She might have done all that. However this day, when she saw the confrontation and fierceness of the Almighty, she helped Moses to obey God herself. Many like getting here before flinging to action. Ok, continue to reduce your witness before heaven. Though she did, it was still grudgingly done. After doing the circumcision, her comment was that Moses is a bloody husband to her. It means till the circumcision, she still wasn't seeing reasons with Moses why any circumcision should have been done. Many there be like that. You can't but have this result when you marry someone outside your faith. God takes thoughts for moments like this when He straitly says, "do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (II Cor.6:14). That place goes on to say, "what concord exists between light and darkness?" Imagine, calling one person light and the other darkness! Ok!
Today, God is seeking to shake you out of the lethargy of growing familiar with God's Word or instruction and then taking such for granted. This is also a word to you spouse, especially those who are hindering their partners from completely obeying God in an area that you both know. When the rebuke comes, you'll be a first-hand risk taker and partaker of that disobedience. When Zipporah saw what the consequence would have been, she shivered into obedience. May it be that there'll never be a pending area of action but disobedience in your life. May it be that when you're inspected, your testimony will be, "and nothing is found in him implicating or incriminating" (John 14:30). May there be no ground in your life for which the Holy Spirit will still come to strive with you and not let you be. And may there be no reason for which He'll let you to yourself.
PRAYER: Lord, cause me to have perfect light on any struggling area of my life that I may repent. Lord, I release it all.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Kings 5:1-6:38; Acts 7:1-29; Psalm 127:1-5; Proverbs 16:28-30
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