SATURDAY - 24TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?
I Samuel 17:28-29, KJV
"28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. 29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"
How many people are here who knows their time is in God's hands? Probably few and those few even seem to be ministers. An average Christian now is easily shaken and put to flight. The kind of relationship they have come to cultivate is not of utmost intimacy where they speak to God and are spoken to. One of the things that can ever give you guarantee that your time is in God's hands is that you hear God for yourself.
Psalms 31:15, KJV
"My times are in thy hand..."
It's written this way in the Bible but you'll doubt that if you see your contemporaries making progress and you're not on motion yourself. If you however do hear God, you'll receive comfort from Him and doubt and shivering would be staunched. The manifest presence of God that you have felt and which you always experience, which you have come to believe in would be enough to assure you that God is also always with you and more importantly hasn't forgotten you. However, if we are far from Him, we can't but at moment of shaking call ourselves a stranger all together. How do we want to approach Him? With what do we supplement it and have that precious Word that takes heaven to speak when the tides are contrary?
God's sovereign hand has moved David to the battle. For forty days, the Philistine, Goliath of Gath torments the army of the Lord. Now is the time to make a move that'll cancel the move of Satan and his own presentation of a tormenting voice. What does God do? He administers David. Immediately, Jesse releases him to battle but under the disguise of a reason not known to him but known to God. To Jesse, it's to go check the welfare of his brothers and to hand them some provision, asking, "if all is well."
When God is ordering your step, you'll meet with time and not miss it. You see, as habitual of Goliath, he'll come out boastfully in the morning and evening to speak his thrash to the face of Israel, withdraw for awhile to the camp and then come back again to rouse them up to the competition. That's what he has been doing for those forty days. At the arrival of David to the war front, he came when the soldiers were proceeding to the battle. At that time, Goliath also comes forth boastfully again to torment the children of Israel. Goliath could have spoken while he's not around and so David wouldn't have asked anyone why it makes sense for him to defy God's army but God slated David to meet and witness Goliath's defying of the Living God and His army.
I Samuel 17:22-23, KJV
"22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. 23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them".
Did you read, "and David heard them?" Heard what? All Goliath of Gath said. How lovingly would it have been for Goliath never to have been caught up in boastfulness at the very arrival and presence of David? He could have escaped death that day but God so timed it that his morning and evening boastfulness continues in that same cycle until to the face of his would- be challenger, he spits the challenge. Who made it so? God did. He slated them to meet. As David speaks with his brother asking after their welfare etc, Goliath came saying those same words. Here comes the moment, the moment when purpose shall be delivered. But probably David would have been handicapped from ever bringing Goliath down. At the time he needed to be sure of what would be in it for any who brings him down, his brother Eliab confronts him debasing him for having come to only sight see and watch the battle. It's at that moment David says, "is there not a cause?" That reply is unusual and also prophetic. It is a revelation of what purpose David has come to serve other than being sent on an errand by Jesse. Is there not a cause means, is there not a purpose for which I am here at this particular time? Have I come of my own? One, Jesse has sent me but more importantly with what I've met here, there's a very great cause to believe, "God would have me here and right here at this particular time". How many of you believe this about you? That you are on time; that you are not late or too early. That you have not arrived as a misfit to the occasion at hand but that you're an answer and their long expected but unacknowledged answer. Do you believe there's a cause (an overall purpose of God) behind your being where you are now, for being a witness of that event currently ongoing? Or do you think your journey is like that of the many soldiers who lack a cause for which they are on the battle field that day? This is what I said. If you've never believed that there's an author, mover and will- it - man behind your life, you'll blame your life and blame your living at each time or at every turn of events. You'll see yourself in the mirror other critical people are showing you. But we must come to a place where even if it were Jesse (a human authority) who sent our David on physical errand, we can publicly declare that this isn't an ordinary journey but a destiny one as events begin to unfold. We should begin to smell and perceive that there's a purpose looming than ordinary for which you are here now. We should be able to say, "beneath this physical errand is another that God is commissioning me". This is living with purpose in view. It means David is actually not lost. It means David knows he's a located man and wherever he is is where God would be. You must be able to decipher the invisible hands behind your movement and transportation. The day your travelling abroad is without a cause any longer is the day natural disasters can find you to kill there. If you know you're a man sold out for whatsoever God is ready to do, that purpose you have found and are servicing under God will continue to preserve you. This interpretation would fill you with confidence of specialness and that God has only one plan for you - of welfare. Where you are therefore brethren and what has unfolded before you so far, could you say, 'there's a cause to their overall happening?" If you were jilted, have you become so taken over by God that out of revelation and understanding, you can say, "it's for a cause." You yourself may not know that cause now but you're sure God will work it out because all things when it eventually works for your good shall reveal that cause - intent God is working at for having allowed that. Joseph knew there's a cause. He told his brethren not to be aggrieved with themselves and that's because through what they did, God sent him here to preserve lives and Israel a remnant because the famine would still last some years. Can you say, "there's a cause" to what you're currently experiencing? I don't need to know what you're passing through or how overwhelming it is. God knows but can you reckon, "there's a purpose for this?" May we be this men of depth who search beyond the ephemeral and longs to pitch events and happenings into their divine global station knowing we have a man who has declared He'll never leave us nor forsake us.
PRAYER: Open my understanding to see the cause of my living and living at a time like this. I plough beyond the ephemeral.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Kings 4:18-5:27; Acts 15:1-35; Psalm 141:1-10; Proverbs 17:23
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