SATURDAY - 20TH JULY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
YOUR CHILD HAS AN EQUIPPING - Your Baby Series 020
Exodus 31:3, KJV
"And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship."
Equipping is what fits anyone for the office he's set in or function he's to discharge. Without equipping or manifestation of an office, one can't be called an apostle, prophet, engineer, artist, musician, writer etc. It is first what you do that earns you the name. As a matter of fact, you may not bear the title but go ahead to doing the work. As such, such title will naturally be attracted and conferred on you.
Can we call you a pastor when you have no pastoral qualities or shepherd duties you're discharging? You neither accept responsibility or seek to protect or care for anyone. So, where will you be located? It's not the certificate that makes you a pastor; it's the work you do. The certificate is only a testimony that witnesses indeed that you've been doing that work.
In today's reading, God equips Bezaleel, Aholiab and other witted people he called for their assignment. Their assignment is clearly stated. It's "4 to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship."
As long as it is anything that pertains to this description, they're capacitated to discharging to the utmost as it'll be demanded of them. They are called to device or work, "in all manner of workmanship." Their equipping therefore and the kind of wisdom God has put in them is not to write books like myself but to craft things. God equips in the direction of the calling or office He's giving any person. Someone God intends to be a sportsman might have kinetic intelligence while another spatial because he's called to be a scientist or inventor.
As such, He fills Bezaleel with the spirit of God (though he won't be doing Moses' kind of ministry). Spirit of God is not only reserved for ministers of the gospel. It's for every professional to function in the profession they're set or placed in.
Your child also has an equipping because he has been surely called and set in a field. If it's to be a writer, he might love the indoor, reading of anything at sight while being a good story lover. He might take interest in folklore, history of mankind and human civilization to your bewilderment. He might want to visit the museum or know about people's cultures or ways of life. You'll just observe some remarkable obsessions in tending towards his calling and future destination. He might even love certain movies and that'll be because they meet the need of He who God has called him to be. So, watch carefully and you'll see. Your child has a calling and God has not left him comfortless by not equipping him. He is equipped already and so, he is able and capacitated to contribute to that field and even earn a living from it if he gives diligence that establishes every calling in the view of the whole world.
PRAYER: May my equipping not be useless. My child's equipping shall find expression. Give me persistence in my calling.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 26:19-32 & Psalms 19-20
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