SUNDAY - 2ND JUNE, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
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IN SEARCH OF RIGHTEOUS MEN
Genesis 18:23-24, KJV
"23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?"
The decay of any society is due to lack of righteous men. Or, let me say men of morals. While one of the major goals of any minister is to see that people get born again to ensure their eternal safety, yet I dare to say that we can have a good and peaceful society if everybody would adhere by moral standards even without getting born again. However, it'll be a foretaste of glory to come to have both hand in hand.
Before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, God and an intercessor in Abraham entered into a long banter and bargaining for the souls of men, especially the righteous (that may be found in it). Abraham asked if God would destroy the righteous with the wicked. Immediately, we see a clear cut principle that the lot of the wicked and righteous aren't the same. God cares enough to protect the righteous. However, no righteous could be found despite the bantering from the high number of 50 men to 10. What is 10 men out of the numerous population of Sodom and Gomorrah that they couldn't present 10 to escape the damnation to come on them? One would be assured that God would even get fifty cheaply. However, God was judged right because the request could not be met.
This story illustrates to us how lacking men of righteous or moral standards are in our world. Many are mere confessors of life they do not live and ways they do not follow. One would have thought the need would never arise to get to such a low degree in search of righteous men. Yet, arrival was made at 10 but with no one to still present.
It's a big truth that God do spare lives of men (unbelievers and wicked fellows) for the sake of a righteous or well reputed son or daughter of his. For instance, God spared the lives of all aboard a ship for the sake of Paul.
Acts 27:23-24, KJV
"23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee."
God wanted to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if He had found at least ten righteous men in it but all was to no avail. The challenge is to be the change we want to see. It's to be that righteous man or woman we covet in our society. Our influence will be that of the salt and light in our society and by our little leaven, the entire lump would be leavened.
PRAYER: Lord, help me to be the change I want. By your searchlight, may I see what I need to repent of.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 2 Samuel 15:23-16:23, John 18:25-19:22, Psalm 119:113-128, Proverbs 16:10-11
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