TUESDAY - 18TH MARCH, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
ARE YOU A BELIEVER? - I Believe Series 001
Genesis 19:14, KJV
"And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law."
Are you a believer? Being a believer doesn't only mean believing in Jesus or receiving Him into your life at the new birth. That may be the crux of your Christianity as you cannot become anything in the Christian journey without first starting as a believer - by being born again. However, a believer believes. Do you have a believing heart? Do you easily believe the truth? Do you have the trait of someone who's responsive even to high sounding truths?
It is clear that God wants to bring destruction to Sodom. The very reason for which God wanted to destroy it, for which God had sent heavenly inspectors to verify was still what the angels disguised as men experienced first hand. The dwellers are just dirty - having changed the natural usefulness of sex. Why would men desire to have sexual relations with men? Isn't that absurd? That's the sin of Sodom. If we look at our world today, we'll see that it's the sin that our world is becoming guilty of now. If you're full of perspective and understanding, you'll see that God didn't wipe out Sodom until they have violated sexual boundaries that the Lord set. Violating sexual boundaries isn't a sin that the Lord takes for granted. It is a sin that even points heavily to the judgement to come just like its doers in the days of Lot were all destroyed.
However, that's not where I'm going. Did you observe that in wanting to save Lot and his household, the angels he accommodates unawares tell him to quickly bring out his people from the city if he had any. That's the benefit of entertaining strangers. Like we saw yesterday, you might entertain angels unawares.
Genesis 19:12, KJV
"And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:"
The moral is this. From inception, God always separates between the wicked and the righteous. Psalm 125:3-4 says, "the rod of the wicked will not fall upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to iniquities." "When the wicked are being taken, you'll only watch with your eyes and see the reward of the wicked" (Psalm 91:7-8).
Now, the only persons that Lot could claim to have in the city were his sons in law. They are the men who'll marry his daughters. They might have been engaged to them already. However, these men refused to heed the warning of Lot. They are not believers! A believer believes in truth even when it is high sounding. Is it not high sounding that Jesus died, resurrected and ascended to heaven to live forever (Acts 1:11)? Don't you think it is high sounding that when Jesus died, He fought death to declare His victory over death (I Cor.15:55)? Don't you think so? Yet, you believed. Somehow, you had the faith to believe and at the end, that makes you a believer. However, these sons in law of Lot refused. The Bible says, "Lot seems to them a mocker" or in a better language, "a comedian." They see him as someone who's drunk or has gone mad. How could he say God is visiting this city with judgement and that they needed to leave ASAP! Their thoughts are, "how possible? We've lived in this city all our life. What has been happening has not just been happening? How's it that it's now that one destruction wants to come? All is fallacy! Fallacy it is!" As such, Lot seems to them as he that is drunk.
This is the ingredient that is lacking in the world. This is why the preaching of the cross is foolishness to many out there (I Cor.1:18). I've seen people mock Jesus, His death and the gospel while sharing it with them. Some would even tell you, such things made no sense. This earth will last forever. If we humans don't last forever on earth, what assures you that the earth itself would last forever. Has faith and the ability to believe being destroyed or bastardized in you? God wants that to be repaired. I'm such a believer of what is faithfully reported that at times, people call me gullible. However, I'm not. The Holy Spirit has warned me of dangers that I believed which separated me from the experiences of many others. Brothers and sisters, are you a believer still? Are you still believing or there are things that are too hard for you to believe in the Bible? Do you think angelic visitation is a fallacy? Do you think healing and miracles are false? Then, you need to confront that in the light of the scriptures. When the preacher preaches and what he says turns no one but he seems like a mocker to them, it's because those he's speaking to are unbelievers that faith didn't miss with the message in their hearts. May you remain a believer at heart O ye Christian! May you believe in God when He speaks to you! May you even move with fear when He speaks. May you escape the damnation to come even as you believe in Jesus' second coming and judgement awaiting our world. May you fall before your face, confess your sins and welcome Jesus into your heart. There is the born again experience!
PRAYER/CONFESSION: I'll not refuse the salvation story that'll preserve me. I believe because I'm a believer.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
Luke 2:1-20 & Deut.11-12
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