THURSDAY - 5TH DECEMBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
WHY IT SHALL NOT COME NEAR YOU - Knowing The Planned Time Series 005
Psalms 91:7-8, KJV
"7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 91:8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked."
Call: 2025!
Response: We know our time!
So shall it be for you. You will always know your time! Let's launch into today's teaching.
We all like to have the experience in the verses above. We like to smile at evil, having escaped it. However, that verse or the experience written in it doesn't come cheaply. It doesn't at all. May God open your eyes to see that it is really your obedience to stand still under the shadow of His protection that guarantees that victory side.
That place says, "a thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not come near you." What a wonder! Imagine people dying left right while you're spared. Imagine robbers visiting a community, robbing houses on both left and right while sparing yours. Imagine the flood or fire operating on both sides but not crossing to yours. That is nothing but awesome wonder. If this continues long enough in your life, you'll force your neighbours to one day accuse you of using witchcraft or using them as sacrificial scape goats for your own escape and salvation. However, we all know that is not so but rather is the Lord's doing to you.
Apart from the fact that the Bible says, "it shall not come near you", it goes on to say, "only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked" (Psalm 91:8, KJV).
It means the only kind of experience you're permitted to have when evil is ravaging is that of an eyewitness or someone seeing it on TV and not really the victim. You'll only behold, see with your eyes and justify God's judgement.
Psalm 91:1 already tells us that having this experience is consequent upon dwelling in the secret place of the Most High and abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. You come under His secret place when you get born again. However, you need to stay there continually by being obedient to your Lord as He'll instruct you to do per time. So actually, your abiding and remaining still under the shadow of the Almighty is made potent by your continual obedience. If God were to tell you, "refrain" but you run, you'll be opening yourself to the wiles of the devil. Not that God doesn't have power to overcome evil. However, He likes to make us obedient and rather keeps us from keeping appointment with evil. So, instead of having common experiences of failure and disappointment like others left right, obedience will keep you from such common harm. Why a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand without it coming to you is because you haven't broken any hedge through your disobedience. If your hedge or fence of protection still stands intact and you haven't gone outside it, why would vulnerabilities bring you down? Why would you be in danger of any harm? Rather you'll be secured inside your hedge or fence (built by God for your defence).
The only people who'll not fall when others are fallen are those who lived and acted differently in obedience to God and the specific instructions He'll bring per time. How many knows Nigeria will be this tough economically? Yet, God had been calling for diversification and multiple streams of income since yesteryears. If you had listened, now that people are burdened by how to cope and are falling down due to economic hardship, you'll just be there observing their fall as an obedient son or daughter. What you therefore adhered to but which they jettisoned is what made all the difference. "A thousand shall fall by your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it shall not come near you" depends on what you see or know to implement ahead of others (the wicked) who'll be disobedient to same instruction. God will forewarn you. May you see to implement. That's your escape valve - that you know what's coming and you hide yourself from it.
PRAYER: I am hidden in Christ and I remain hidden in Him through my obedience and implementation of His will.
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