SUNDAY – 6TH OCTOBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHY DID YOU LEAVE?
Ruth 1:1, KJV
"Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons."
God is asking some people, "why did you leave?" Some are leaving where God is or coming to, to where God is leaving or has departed from outrightly! Such people will have themselves to blame.
This is usually the story and regret of those who relocated out of their countries when the mouth of the Lord hasn't ordain it. They might have done it out of public opinion, pressure, ego or what have you but when the trouble starts, it's a foolish child who would bear the consequences of his foolishness (first of all even if anyone connected to him would be a sharer).
In a sympathizing voice, God is asking some who like Naomi went out full but who are now empty where they are and are finding it hard returning "why did you leave?" Naomi called herself Mara. She denounced the name Naomi. Mara means bitterness. Why won't she be bitter since she went out with a family who never returns with her to Bethlehem. What a loss of two children and a husband!
Some haven't lost any soul they took abroad but they have lost all their properties and wealth which they sold back in their nativity before travelling. Where they are abroad now, they are like carcass walking. As in, a living dead - a zombie. They are very dry with no hope of revival. Fellowship with God is down because they need to use their time to work as to be able to offset bills. No rest: either physically or in the Lord. The plan of starting all over abroad is frustrated and is verily slowed down.
But I heard concerning you, "you shall be brought back. You shall be recovered. God shall turn your captivity if you'll see where you've fallen to retrace your steps and return." Until then, breath can't enter into you. Until then, you cannot rise a vast army again. Don't say, "it'll be too embarrassing returning to your nativity early. Don't therefore continue to live in pretence when you know what the Lord is raising with you. Those who tarry out of the will of God always count some losses. When a man makes a move outside God's will, He loses God's favour and protection. That man becomes vulnerable. The hedge that surrounds his family and all he has becomes penetrable if not immediately removed. Relocation outside the circle God draws for our individual leads to that and continues if we remain adamant and unrepentant.
You were trapped by sin when you travelled abroad to the land of anything goes but once you return (first to Him in fellowship) and by making plans to return physically (since God never wanted you there in the first place), God will restore you. That's the cry, "come back."
PRAYER: Interpret Your ask of, "where art thou to me?" Lead me in the path of Your righteousness.
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