MONDAY - 5TH AUGUST, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHEN YOUR THINGS DELAY - Capacity Building Series 005
Matthew 13:5, KJV
"Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:"
God uses delay to mature Christian virtues in us. It'll be good if you understand the purpose of delay. This way, you'll cooperate with the Holy Spirit to learn and be in the right receiving state for what you're expecting.
The plant in our text is described to have, "sprung up forthwith!" Everybody knows that seeds take time to germinate. That's because they need to first send root, sustainable roots downward. We know that there's no life without the root. It is through the root nutrients are passed and communicated to the entire body of any plant. Also, good root system provides support against contrary wind etc.
However, this plant in view jettisons all those. Rather, 'forthwith it sprung." This is a community of people who don't pass through the door. They rather come through another way to access the sheepfold. What does Jesus call them? Thieves and robbers, for having broken process and order of things (John 10:1-3).
The word, "forthwith" suggests immediacy or promptness. Instead of tarrying and seeking to make appearance after maturity, they rather pursue after exposure. Such people will put those doing it right under pressure of time to compromise or reexamine themselves though they aren't wrong but remain God abiders. By the time a fellow given to bribery and corruption establishes himself with some physical tangibility that all eyes can see, it could make the real Christians question God and even query their Christianity. However, make no mistake, God doesn't approve of such sudden appearance that has no foundation or solidity. Everything is timed and put under due process by God. Beware of microwave rising! The Bible talks of time in its variety of manifestation i.e time to be born or die (Eccl.3). Before death would result, one must therefore have spent some years which will culminate in ageing and consequently death. That's the natural process of things when not broken. So, there's an outline and a process that results in whatsoever we eventually see appear. It takes time to reach an end or that conclusion. When the order is broken, things might appear faster than planned anyway. In the natural, that's why early death is a breaking of that process. And when it happens, no one is ever happy with it. An explanation fitting the seeds that forthwith sprung up.
Brethren, always tend towards the side of clear conscience. It is not everybody whose things quickly appear who cut corners anyways. Some didn't. They might be young but might have paid the greatest sacrifices or received the favour of the Lord. The time to favour them might have come since the time to favour individual varies (Psalm 102:13). However to those you know to be law breakers and sinners whose shoots appear when your own root is still in the soil, be rest assured that when they're swept away by the flood (if they don't repent), your house shall be standing in observation of them. The Bible says, "a thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes will you behold the reward of the wicked" (Psalm 91:7-8). When the wicked are being recompensed, you'll be there watching and sympathizing and testifying to other witnesses on the dangers of cutting corners.
Those plants due to lack of depth eventually withered away. That withering is the just recompense for having cut corners in the first place. While they are gone; you'll be here watching and sipping tea. The wicked shall not always endure. They shall not tarry in the congregation of the righteous. Like the wind drives away the chaff, they shall be driven away. But the righteous shall stand still.
PRAYER: Give me solace in your Word and in my doing it right when my things delay. May I not hurry the process out of ordainment but let patience have its full effects that a rounded man might be produced.
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Romans 8:18-39 & Psalms 70-73
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