FRIDAY- 30TH MAY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
YOU MUST SLEEP! - Positioned For Divine Attention Series 004
Genesis 2:21, KJV
"And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof."
Have you undergone a surgery before? If you haven't, I'm not praying for one for you. However, anaesthesia is one of the critical things to get done for any being readied for a surgical operation. I know of a brother who underwent one. They first gave him a dose that ought to knock him out. However, he was still conscious. So, they had to increase the dose. After his surgical operation while asleep, the doctors asked his wife whether her husband smokes or drinks. They expressed their shock at his not passing out with the first dose administered on him. It might be due to his strong bodily constitution or what have you.
Some of you however are like this brother. You're not sleeping even when God intended so. On the choice of who to marry, God wants you to enter sleep mode and be at rest that God is at work for you. When God promised Adam a wife, it wasn't Adam who went about town looking for one. Adam didn't even know God's thoughts for him. It wasn't Adam who began to look for a face that resembles his in the garden. It wasn't Adam who even initiated that process of, "it's not good that the man should be alone again." As a good son, serving God's will in the garden, it was God who sees fit that it's not good that Adam should be alone. The result of that is God promising to make him a helpmeet that'll fit or suit him.
When God revealed His plans to make a helpmeet for Adam to us, God did a wonderful wonder worthy of our study. The Bible says, "God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam..." The usage of anaesthesia by doctors for surgery is directly referenced here. God is the first medical doctor and if you want a surgeon. God knew that if Adam did not sleep and sleep well in unconsciousness, it would be difficult for him to cut through his flesh and take out one of his ribs. If you want to know how unbecoming that could be, go and try it on any animal and see if there won't be struggle and cries. You'll do much harm because you haven't sedated the fellow involved. It'll be a life or death situation in that lab. Removing someone's bone isn't an easy task that just goes well while the fellow is still very much active and awake. Adam for this reason has to sleep and sleep well. That's why the Bible says, "God caused a deep sleep on Adam." It wasn't an ordinary sleep but a deep one. Even if heavy machinery or artillery were used near Adam, he wouldn't have woken up. Why? He has been sedated by God with a deep sleep so that the "making of a wife" for him might not be interfered with by him.
It is the same that God is asking of you. Brother, sister, you need to sleep. You need to release the matter of a spouse into God's hands. Let Him handle it. He's faithful who said, "He'll make a helpmeet for Adam." At day's end, He showed up with that helpmeet - a spouse who can meet needs and complement Adam in his assignment.
Genesis 2:22, KJV
"And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
Did you see that? The rib God removed from Adam is what God made a woman and brought to Adam. God gives you your kind, your part, a piece that can complement what is missing or lacking in you. When God took away Adam's rib, that leaves a vacuum in him. God did close it up but with flesh. That vacuum is what the rib turned woman came to fill again.
There's a need for a wife in your life. You might not have seen it but God knows it and He'll make a wife for you that can rightly fill that void. However, you need to sleep. Pray and commit the choice of a marriage partner into God's hands and wait on Him to show you or bring the fellow across you. You'll meet and when you do, you'll be able to attest that this is he or she. Even Adam couldn't hold it. He exclaimed, "this is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh..."
May you have that testimony. However, don't do God's job for Him. You only need to receive a communication on who to marry, who to propose to or wait for His proposal. Except on occasions where you could also receive a witness on the spot. In all, follow God as He leads you.
PRAYER: I am confident in Your outworking for me. I release the choice of a marriage partner into your hands as I trust our path shall cross.
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