SUNDAY - 26TH MAY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
STANDING UP AND SPEAKING UP
Darkness should be intimidated by light. Such order is what should follow. No time should a light carrier feel threatened by darkness. For this reason, we must all build a society where righteousness shines brightly like the sun, is embraced and lovingly cherished. Whether in our families, at work places or in the society at large, we must insist on having justice reign. As such, we need mouths to speak and insist on justice when it is being violated. Without mouths, darkness would overrun everywhere and men would slip into unrighteousness without a second thought or their consciences pricking them.
God is calling you to stand up. Standing or speaking up is usually a rare act in a darkened and corruption dominated society especially ones with bullies and strong propagists of evils. As such, every one might have been beaten into silence. However, God is raising you to break such silence. He's sending you as a saviour to begin to deliver and speak for the oppressed and save many sheep from the teeth of the lions and bears that have them. That's the work of a spiritual leader who protects his sheep but it is your work in the civil society also. The plague of silence must not overhaul a Christian. We mustn't be afraid of darkness and so shut up from exposing or rebuking its deeds. When little little acts of injustice are ongoing and you refuse to talk, that foothold will lead to a stronghold and when it does, it becomes real difficult tackling it. What you don't want to see at all, don't accommodate it.
One major trait of Moses is his speaking and standing up ability. He's an upstart in that. He rarely could stand injustice. On an occasion when he went to look at the burden of his people and sees an Egyptian maltreating a Hebrew, out of zeal and jealousy, he did something about it (Exo.2:11-12). He killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. While that's murder, yet we sure know that Moses seeks to balance things out by that action by calling for a society where liberty, equity and justice exist. When these are lost, oppression finds its place.
In today's reading however, Moses stands up and speaks up for the seven daughters of Reul - the priest of Midian and his future father in-law. The shepherds who are bullies capitalize on their gender and its perceived weakness to take advantage of them and cheat them out of their rights. However, Moses rose up as a saviour and insisted on their right for them. He let them have their first place. He resisted those bully shepherds for them, fetched water and watered their flocks alike. Where they are weak, he becomes their strength.
It is the mandate of a Christian to insist on what is right wherever he may be. It is his call to resist evil and spare what his right always. If we should let the plague of silence or inactivity rub itself on us, we'd close our eyes to injustice which will grow to the harvest of corruption that'll later reap. You're a freedom fighter, social and even a political activist. You must find your voice and calling which is to be mouth for the dumb. Job speaks thus of his lifestyle and social justice attitude.
Job 29:15-17, KJV
"15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."
This is your calling as a Christian. You shouldn't be the one cowering or shivering at the feet of unrighteousness. When you roar, it should flee. May you be strong. May you find a team of like-minded people where you are placed with which you could threaten evil and bring justice to the land. And when alone, may you always hear the strengthening voice of whose you are and who you serve.
PRAYER: Lord, raise up for us activists in all endeavours of life. Put your jealousy, zeal and justice in such and let them call for equality, fairness and speak for the helpless
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 4:1-6:23, John 13:31-14:14, Psalm 119:17-32, Proverbs 15:31-32
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