MONDAY – 7TH OCTOBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
TO NATIONS AND PEOPLE LOSING MANPOWER - Where Art Thou Series 007?
Ruth 1:6, KJV
"Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread."
This is to nations and people losing manpower. You know, I previously said there are places that people are pouring out of currently. Whether it's in the will of God or not for everybody, they just want to leave such places. As such, they don't even mind where they find themselves. God has a word and comfort for such places that people are leaving or thronging out of.
The Bible says, "when Naomi heard that God had visited her people, she prepared going back home."
Some of you are as stubborn as a goat and you won't heed God or His comfort to rebuild you until you see convincing and clear evidences. Until you hear some good news about your nativity, some of you would never believe that it could be well with you in such land. You don't have to see the marks of the nails before you believe however. Don't be a doubting Thomas. I'm sure if Naomi didn't hear that God had revisited her people, she might not conclusively take it serious to go back home. Bread, bread that people are looking for is not something that is everywhere. Europe may be an interesting place to be but your bread may not be there. What you must know is that wealth or riches is usually hidden and it takes discovery and enlightenment to see where your gold mine is. I've met people with professions that no one would suspect could guarantee wealth who are wealthy. How? God hid their wealth in a seemingly thoughtless profession, act or location. Your own wealth giver has to be discovered. You might have studied business but God might tell you to start farming. Farming cannot prosper everyone but it may be what'll prosper you. Some would be going straight but God might tell them to bend through leading. That may be where their wealth is!
That verse, "of God revisiting Israel" would literally happen to some countries before the end of time comes I believe.
Though Naomi had lost all and she could be debased, shamed or called unpatriotic by shamers, yet she counted all as a fair share for having missed it. She refused to allow her ego get the better of her by delaying or refusing to return. Some of you my readers who have missed God by miles, God might be bringing a clear, confronting evidence and proof for which you have to return back home to you just like we have in today's anchor verse. You might not have heard anything hopeful about your nativity but yours might be in the conviction that God wants you to return to go and get ready for His visitation in your country. When God created Adam, He puts him in the garden to till and see to it. That became his jurisdiction to watch and tender. I believe you too have a place to tender and watch. It's your fertile soil but you might have been displaced from there. God wants to take you back there. It's the place God would be coming to but he wants you to have been settled there, continue in putting preparation in places, learn how to take advantage of the opportunities that land could offer before His arrival. God might be setting you up for a big harvest if you'll heed Him and leave the wrong place you've been scattered to.
While this is a comfort to a place or people being jilted, it's also an encouragement to those who are in such nation where it has always blown hot to persevere, be contented, continue with their training and await what God would make them by the time some who have missed it would be returning lately. When people like Elimelech left, they could be said to have forfeited their estate. When they returned (in Naomi and Ruth), it was people like Boaz who bought their inheritance. Just by staying, he has become so wealthy that he has everyone's ears and could accumulate and annex other people's estates without fear of forfeiting his.
If the mouth of the Lord hasn't ordained it, be immovable but if you're persuaded, run!
PRAYER: Lord, situate me in my fertile land. Guide me to the discovery of my gold mine. I pray for my nativity to be blessed.
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