WEDNESDAY - 28TH FEBRUARY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHAT SHOULD CHARACTERIZE OUR LIVES
Numbers 23:24, KJV
"Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain."
This verse should characterize our lives. In the pursuit of purpose, we ought give our eyes no sleep and our eyelids no slumber until we have achieved our intentions. This doesn't mean not sleeping literally until days accumulated into months and months accumulated into years. We know that's impossible. While we may keep vigils occasionally for the realization of our dreams or goals, that place most essentially is calling and breeding us to be people who can't be satiated by pleasure or any other substitute the world has to offer except purpose and its realization.
Some group of men came together for a purpose - to kill Paul. The fact that they meant business was revealed in the resolution they made. They bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they might have killed him (Acts 23:12). That's the kind of resolution, purposeful attacking, focus that I am taking about. One major thing that should be able to guide us this way to achievement is our goal. A life without a goal will be scattered not knowing where to branch or focus. It is when flowing stream or bodies of water lose focus that it becomes a flood. That one as we know blesses no one. However, imagine a body of water that's running in its course without overflowing its boundary. Anything without a focused goal will bring harm. However, when there's a goal, you know what and where to pour yourself into. You give it all and like a wall being besieged, you'll soon see it fall.
You're meant to rise up as a great lion, lift up yourself like a young lion - not lying down until you have ate of the prey and drank of the blood of the slain. If you watch a lion when it is hungry, you'll have a clearer picture. Because it's hungry, it'll hunt and until its hunger is satiated, there's no turning back or resolution to rest or seek its den. It went hunting for a purpose and that must be achieved before turning back. It doesn't matter how long it takes or what impediments it faces. Something ought to be driving you too. Don't be clueless. Are you telling me you have no dreams? Are you saying you don't want to realize all the human potential God puts in you? That's a debt you owe God. You must discover what capacity you carry, what extent you can go and give yourself to it - serving your generation and those to come with your latent talents, gifts and grace. Something drove those people who bound themselves with an oath to kill Paul. What you have not become that you should become should drive you too. It should become a novel motivation not letting you sit or rest in idleness. As you give all that it takes i.e going to a formal school, engaging in self development, training or rehearsing, collaborating, writing, doing videos etc, you shall see yourself eating of the prey and drinking the blood of the slain. However, put your dream before your eyes first of all. The Psalmist talks of setting the Lord before him (Psalm 16:8). It is what you set before you that you'll see constantly. So, set your dream, aspiration, goal etc before your eyes. Let it have you so you may have it.
PRAYER: O God of Creation, direct my noble cause/course.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 19:1-20:21, Mark 8:11-38, Psalm 42:1-11, Proverbs 10:17
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