FRIDAY - 6TH DECEMBER, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
THANK GOD FOR FOREKNOWLEDGE - Knowing The Planned Time Series 006
Proverbs 22:3, KJV
"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."
It takes prudence (sort of observatory and analytical mind which calls for cautiousness) to be able to forecast events and begin to put plans on ground because one believes in their happening. A fool therefore doesn't have an equipment of the mind to sum 2+2 together and conclude something might result. First of all, he doesn't engage in meditation or critical thinking. He just lives on.
Also, you're prudent when you have foresight. It'll show in the multitude of what you'll be able to escape but which will come near others or take them.Thank God for foreknowledge. If not for the foreknowledge of certain events of life that we had, we might be ill prepared and not have acted differently. Foresight would give you foreknowledge about things to come that you can maneuver or play around for your own good.
Without divine revelation, projections are often being done into the future by different professional bodies and systems of the world. Often time, you'll hear reports that water level might get high, typhoon, earthquake or other natural disasters should be expected and dated. Such projection is being done because they care and value human life. Many times, there are legislations to desert such areas marked as dangerous zones. However as you'll agree, some might despise such order and continue to live on as if there's no coming event to avoid. This is why people perish. Assuming it cannot come to them when they are not doing anything to hide themselves from what has been clearly slated to occur is the greatest proof of foolishness. Economically wise, you'll hear financial forecasts and reports like that as well. As a matter of fact, whenever there's no divine revelation or report (Isa. 53:1), I'll counsel you to go with the reports and findings of experts on any matter. It'll save you many times. God gives us intelligence and dominion over all of creation for a reason - to dominate it. It means we can find things out just by scientific process or deductive reasoning that'll yet be true. If humans cannot be true, then all hospitals and human enterprises meeting needs of humanity and recovering them one way or the other should have been scrapped.
When you foresee the future (and you have foreknowledge of what it contains), it means you now have information upon which you can act. A Yoruba proverb says, "a foreannounced war doesn't take a cripple at short notice." It is always expected that he'll have started fleeing for refuge since the report of the tentative war. By the time the war eventually breaks out, he'll have been so distant from the war zone that he could declare himself safe.
That's the meaning of foreseeing the evil - counting the cost of staying back, seeing the consequences and what'll be at stake and then acting to prevent it all. Acting to prevent the foreknowledge of what you have through foresight (either by divine revelation or human projection) is what the Bible calls, "hiding oneself."
The imagery being portrayed is that of a man on a journey who observes bandits coming his way but hides himself for awhile till they pass before resuming his journey. When the evil is gone, he could do whatsoever but while the evil still tarries, he needs to avoid it. Henceforth, may God show you things to avoid. It is wisdom to know and avoid the avoidable. You'll have to go through certain things but the avoidable ones provide you solutions or escape without fighting. I wouldn't want to waste my resources and energy on something that I can dodge and let pass. Avoiding is not a sign of cowardice but wisdom and maturity that saves you from being used, worn out and then in search of repair. Take counsel, avoid the avoidable and only go through the unavoidable. At such time, God won't fail you likewise.
PRAYER: I discern the avoidable evils and receive wisdom to avoid them. For the unavoidable, I'm made their equal - having a way of escape at day's end.
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