TUESDAY - 6TH JUNE, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
THE LORD WILL DELIVER YOU!
Psalms 22:6-9, KJV
"6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts."
What an invocation! What a call to He who did it yesteryears to come and do it again! Your hope won't be dashed. Brethren, God will once more make hope for you. New levels are always marked by new devils. No two seasons are the same but if at this time you are in need of God's salvation - needing God to save your face and save your life, then God is very much up to the task. He will deliver you. If they have mockingly said, "let God come and deliver him", you can be sure that He won't forlorn you but make haste.
The Psalmist here acknowledged God as He who took him out of the womb. That's one salvation. We know it's not all pregnancy that's birthed and those birthed do not always survive afterwards. However, God granted salvation to the psalmist first of all by ensuring his safe delivery from the house he had known into another he should know. That's the first God's doing to praise Him for. His being birthed safe and sound is the first sign that God has a plan for and watches over him. After this, God continues to see to his survival and so God makes him hope when he was upon his mother's breasts. We don't know whether it was how God saved him from a sickness near death or a similar situation that he references here. But we do know that as a suckling, you can't protest anything. You're weak. Another is rather a watch over you. Despite being in such position, he also survived that stage to grow into an adult who can now take responsibility over himself. He survived once more. Hallelujah! Now looking back and accounting how God kept him and made him to continue in life, he utters a speech of hope that the God of those years would be near him again. Now, if God was with him at all these times, it won't be now He'll let him alone. If God would watch over him in the womb and deliver him from all possible vulnerabilities while a weakling, that God of ages past must answer for him again. It is in this we can trust - that our Rock is not like their rock. Ours is trustworthy and always reliable. He has promised, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" (Heb.13:5).
And God never disappoints. The God of yesterday is the God of today and tomorrow. He'll always be there for you. Jesus once told Peter, "31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not" (Luke 22:31, KJV). That's God appearing for Peter. "That I have prayed for you that Jesus uttered" means "but I have made hope for you." The making of hope for him lest he slips and goes into extinction in faith. It is that prayer of Jesus that cut off the discontinuation plan Satan plans towards him. God also won't let the desire of your enemy come to pass over you. Rather, He'll continue to deliver and make you escapes and hope from such life threatening situations. For the sake of the boastfulness of your enemies, for the manipulations of Satan which is at work around you, God will rise to set them all at naught. Seeing the mockery, the ridicule and their challenge of God to action, He'll indeed rise to ensure you continue. You won't be ended here. You still have life to live, purpose to achieve and testimonies to bear.
The Psalmist says, 'He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters" (Psalms 18:16, KJV). Any in many waters needs external deliverance. That Psalmist has a splendid testimony of God coming from above and saving him out of many waters. That's your testimony. Irrespective of the hardship or situation you're in, your help which comes from above will always come. It's on the way. Await its arrival.
PRAYER: O God of ages past, be my God of years to come.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 23:24-24:25; Acts 3:1-26; Psalm 123:1-4; Proverbs 16:21-23
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