SATURDAY - 17TH FEBRUARY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE PURPOSE OF ABUNDANCE
Read Gen. 41
Genesis 41:36, KJV
"And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine."
When God is at work, may you see Him. The truth is, there's none God won't come for. He's never unjust. He gives to all His blessings and appears to each of us at a certain time or season of life. God came for Egypt to prepare them for the hard times ahead of them. There'll be famine in the land but for them to cope, God first brought their solution hidden in the seven years of plenty. These seven years of plenty was an intentional orchestration of God so that Egypt might not be consumed or thrown into extinction. That is God's plan for them. However, they might have failed in implementing it by wasting away grains and not storing it. Human foolishness and carelessness could have caught up with them.
According to the interpretation Joseph brought on Pharaoh's dreams, there come seven years of abundance and seven years of famine after them. The famine would be so severe that the seven years of abundance would never be seen to have occured. On this note, Joseph gave a reason why God is visiting Egypt with abundance. Don't forget that according to the right interpretation of the dreams, those seven years of abundance are predicted to be years in which the land would bring forth plentifully. Should it therefore be wasted? Will that be the very purpose for which God was giving it? No!
Thank God for discernment and discretion of someone like Joseph. The solution to not be stranded in the seven years of famine is to gather food like the sand of the sea shore to await and cater for those years of hard times to come. The purpose of that God given abundance to Egypt is therefore to elongate their living and make them beat the famine on the match.
Look, God has a purpose for all He does. He just didn't bring seven years of abundance to Egypt that they might eat and rejoice. He intends it would be conserved and saved against the hardship that'll come their way. Same way, God expects that a Christian would not eat all his grains but save and then invest his resources for multiplication so he'll be rich/wealthy enough to survive all famines and thirst. Look, God will equate you with what is coming upon the earth. He prepares Christians and even gives us notifications. You might have been insensitive to your preparation! If you observe rightly, you'll see that it was seven years of abundance God gave to cater and absorb the anticipated seven years of famine. It wasn't lesser or higher in comparison. God is very just. Everything is done by equity, having been measured in a balance of fairness. One time, I once took a three units course that was taught for three hours on each contact with a scheduling of its exam for three hours also. The lecturer while commenting said, "that was done to create a balance. It's all fairness. It's a three units course that'll be taught for three hours and then done for three hours." Everything was measured rightly. Also, God measured the seven years of abundance to rightly meet and drown the seven years of famine if only Egypt would be wise to take advantage of the abundance. Thank God they did. Thank God for the wise manager God gave them.
Brethren, the Bible says, "there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it (I Corinthians 10:13, KJV). Believe that. When God was to bring the seven years of famine, He first brought the seven years of plenty by which handle Egypt and her people could find their feet and way to escape. What matters is not to waste your "way of/to escape" when God brings it to you. There are many who are complaining now of God's unfaithfulness to them yet God had appeared to them severally. However, they didn't trap His blessings like Egypt. Could Egypt have blamed God Almighty for not doing good to her if she had not stored grains? Yet, that's what we do. We blame God over our own financial unreasonableness, careless spending and wastefulness during the years our lands brought forth abundantly yet expecting a kind of miracle from heaven after this failure. Look, the miracle already came. You mismanaged it. God has already appeared to you. How you maximize what He brings is simply your salvation. To those still arguing, saying God never prepared them for the hard times they're now experiencing, you probably need to read this.
Job 33:14, KJV
"For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not."
You see, that verse says God has repeatedly revealed or manifested Himself to man, however, he didn't recognize God's visitation for what it is. In same way, when God visited you with your grains, you didn't know it was meant for saving for a future of hard times to come. That's why you became the prodigal son in those days/years. You blew it all to put blames on God now. That'll be wickedness. Repent having learnt the purpose of abundance and await God to visit you again.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive reason and understanding to trap and conserve my blessings. I become a wise manager of resources.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 1:1-3:17, Mark 1:29-2:12, Psalm 35:17-28, Proverbs 9:13-18
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