SUNDAY - 14TH JANUARY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THEIR DESCRIPTION 2
Psalms 105:12-15, KJV
"12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm."
I inferred yesterday that no man always begin big. If any man started big, "bigger" is in front that he can become. What I've found out is that there's always a new frontier to push and a city gate to still carry. We can always do more because we're really made for it. However, you'll have had a history of small beginning. That always precedes one's glory day.
Imagine the description of Israel here. He was described as a few people, very few and one who's even a stranger in the land promised to their fathers.
That description is condescending. Though true, it reveals Israel (that big nation that has come to be) as one who once had history of smallness and nothingness. Israel started as a few people. How many of you are here who have read about different startups that have become global today? You'd here they started in one place and with a handful (of staff or adherents). When W. F. Kumuyi, the founder of Deeper Life Church started out in 1979, he started during his first year as a lecturer in the University Campus of Lagos and then with 15 people only. Now, imagine what that denomination has become! They're more than a million worldwide now. From that calling are group of schools that includes a University also. Yet, just with 15 members. At starting out, you don't always have the town with you. Persistence is what converts them to you.
Israel started that way. The Bible summarily describes the start-up of Israel as, "when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few..."
You'll have that testimony of being few and very few. Being few or very few bears testimony to your days of small beginning. It bears testimony to a time when you've not made it. It bears testimony to the time you're still an apprentice to masters and have not gained independence let alone start or stand alone. There was a time when Israel was a few men in number, and very few. At such time, it was easy for them to be bamboozled or beaten to dust. At such time, any one could have successfully cheated them and they wouldn't have had the wherewithal to respond or seek recourse themselves. Why? They were few men in number and very few in the land. They lacked an organized army then. Two, they were strangers in that same land. And when you're a stranger in a land, you really have limits as to what extent you can go. Something internal curtails you and tells you to exercise caution because you're not like the natives or indigenes who are living in their lands. If you were at home, you can as well boast. However, you can't now in a foreign land. Other men are likely the captain while you are there seeking to rise. It was in such case Israel found himself. He was few, very few in the land he was or moved to. Two, the land he was is not his at that time. He dwelled in it as a stranger. So, he couldn't have acted or expected to be treated like its owner. Their being small therefore brought on them the reproach of he that can be robbed, beaten or cheated. They don't have the population to defend against aggression or attacks that might come. They are but a few people and when you are, you can only do little. However, God with them fought for them and even restrained the hands of kings from falling on them. I pray for you that while you're few, very few, may the Lord Himself defend you and subsequently enlarge you. When you're yet a stranger in the land (you'll one day become its major shareholder), may God protect your life to see that day. May God keep you in these days of your smallness so that you're not swallowed up by the power of the land. You'll survive and survive it all. As you move from one place to another, one job to another even as a single, God will allow no one to do you wrong. Until you've become strong and can enter into your rest, God will protect your lot and what you've committed to His hands.
PRAYER: Father, defend me and speak for me in my smallness. I commit to you until my enlargement into a nation.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 30:1-31:16, Matthew 10:1-23, Psalm 12:1-8, Proverbs 3:13-15
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