WEDNESDAY - 19TH MARCH, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
MOVING WITH FEAR - I Believe Series 002
Hebrews 11:7, KJV
"By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith."
I concluded with a statement yesterday. "Many things in the Bible or let us say in reality would happen to test your believer's status." We've seen how Lot's sons in law are at all not believers. Believers are those who heard and promptly obeyed - acting on what they have heard. How smooth would it have been for them to have left with Lot? However to them, the preaching of the cross is just foolishness. It was high sounding to hear that Sodom was to be destroyed. They just couldn't fathom it!
God will like us to learn a lesson from the relationship of Lot's daughters and his sons in-law. My prayer is that you won't get where you as a Christian sees nobody fit of you for marriage than a heathen or unbeliever. If we were to dissect things in truth, Lot's sons in law are unbelievers if taken in comparison with her daughters. While Lot and his household believe in the reality of prediction and Sodom being destroyed, this Lot's sons in law didn't. The Bible says, "Lot seems like one who mocks to them" (Gen.19:14). They were as dead as stone when they should have been responsive - moving with fear to the saving of their souls. If Lot's daughters had eventually married these two heathens, they wouldn't have made the home atmosphere conducive for them. While Lot's daughters would believe in worship of God, they might be idol worshippers or atheists. When Lot's daughters are claiming to have had a vision signalling God's communication and warning, they'll say there's nothing like God speaking to any human being. We got wind of this through their unbelieving act and how they didn't move a bit when they heard the information that was terrifying and should have made them run.
However, Noah isn't like these Lot's sons in law. Our verse for today says, "being warned of God of things not seen as yet, Noah moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his people, by which he condemned the world..." (Heb.11:7).
When you don't know God - the God of the Christians - the One revealed only in the Bible, it's possible to mock when you hear something about the Bible and Jesus Christ. You'll just won't believe it except it mixes with faith in your heart. Noah heard like Lot's sons in-law heard but the difference is that, "Noah moved with fear." He so much esteemed and revered what God said as coming to pass that he went on immediately to start making plans and putting preparation in place for the coming flood. He didn't say, "it can't happen. Flood on the earth! From where will it come? How will it start? He didn't reason it. He believed God against all reason and this made him a believer. It was a high sounding truth he believed. However, the world is lost in its busy and thoughtless activities of eating and drinking (in revelry), marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark and knew not when the flood came and took them all away..." (Matt.24:38).
When you hear things of the Bible, how do you react to it? Do you disdain it like Lot's sons in-law or you move with respect and act on it in total obedience like Noah? That's the mark that separates a believer from an unbeliever or else none of us would have gotten born again too? May we be this alive - moving promptly in obedience and utmost reverential fear when the Lord and His messengers speak to us His Word and His declarations. May you fall on your face where need be, confess where need be and turn a new leaf as need be.
PRAYER: Lord, I call my heart a heart of flesh. I am responsive. I am alive to every instruction that'll be medicine to my soul and life to my spirit.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
Luke 2:1-20 & Deut.11-12
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