WEDNESDAY - 5TH JUNE, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
RAISING LAWGIVERS
Numbers 21:18, KJV
"The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah."
If you don't know, the many deeds and acts serrated through our society are consequences of the bills and laws made by parliamentarians or the law givers. Homosexual bill, abortion enhancement bill etc are results of the bills that were passed and eventually ratified into law. Someone thought of it and fought for its promulgation yet it is an act in conflict with God's will for man. Whether you like it or not, once such bills are passed into law, our society becomes a victim of it. It immediately gives right and lend voices to indulge in such debased acts that God has afore warned against.
Today's reading is such an effective verse on this matter. The princes digged a well and the nobles of the people digged it. However, the digging was at the direction or instruction of the lawgiver. That is, what came to be that wouldn't have been happened because the lawgivers or parliamentarians commanded it. If no decision or compromise was reached to build wells, it couldn't have been built head on for the people. However, the compassionate heart of these legislators make social amenities available for her citizens. Anything that's done is usually at the permission of lawgivers.
When Joseph was made the prime minister of Egypt, Pharaoh says, "Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou" (Genesis 41:40, KJV).
Genesis 41:44, KJV
"And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."
It means unless Joseph ordains it, no action whatsoever could proceed from any quarters. It is by his words people would rather be governed. What makes it lawful and makes your action have the State's backing is that you have support through legislation.
As such, we need men of high morals in our parliament. They don't have to be Christians but anyone who just have a heart that beats as God. You know, a heart that wants to save humanity from immorality and all the things troubling and vexing his existence.
William Wilberforce was such a lawgiver though a Christian. He believed it was his destiny to pass bills that'll eradicate slave trade. At day's end, his effort paid off as it was eventually eradicated. Meanwhile, he has an unquenchable insatiation to see to that problem besetting humanity and revealing our baseness. It is time not to enjoy the privileges of the office only but rather to use its influence for the good of humanity.
PRAYER: Lord, raise for us godly parliamentarians and politicians.
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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