WEDNESDAY- 22ND OCTOBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
WHAT CAN MEN DO TO ME?
"The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?"
If there's any action the Lord wants to call you to this morning, it is to take account of whatsoever has been done to you and then imagine what else could be done to you. Ask with me, "what can men do to me?" In this life, some have been jilted, slandered, libeled, rejected, abused, ignored, hated, persecuted and even discriminated against. We can take account of more painful hurts and label them for what they are. In all, the Psalmist wants us to ask, "what can men do to me?" First of all, you have to see that the Psalmist creates an endless list of evils or hurts humanity can unleash against an hated neighbour. Man is wicked and he can do much but despite that much he can unleash, we're still told to ask, "what will his much amount to if God be with us?" Paste the full list of any evil invention that any man can do to you here and it shall be made void and null by just one truth - "that God is with you". God being with you is therefore the antidote that swallows and makes null and void any evil any man does or can do to you. You remember vividly the Hebrew boys. The heat killed the mighty men who threw them into the furnace. Meanwhile, they themselves survived the furnace and obtained a testimony that "fire had no power on their bodies, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire passed on them" (Daniel 3:27). They experienced the furnace but it has no effect whatsoever on them and that's because God was with them. So, what can men do to them?
This is what God does for a man that He's with and that's why you should not be afraid of what men may do to you. Your protection is the Lord if He's with you. Irrespective of what men does to you, God will ensure it becomes insignificant. It won't be traceable on you. God will overshadow its effects and those former things will no longer be remembered. What has men done to you, may the effects be annulled this instant. Gradually, may time bury it and recover you. At times, God does a kind of restoration or replenishing so that those victims of hurt may be compensated and vindicated. It's in this category, Joseph falls.
Joseph pastures the sheep of his father with the children of Zilpah and Bilhah. The Bible says he brought an evil report of them to his father. We all know that's possible because the father once sent him on an errand to look after their ways (Gen.37:13). This in itself is an exalted position that can draw hatred to anyone considering his birth rank. For his dreams which predicts him as being a leader over them, they however hated him the more and couldn't speak peaceably to him. This hatred is set in motion when Jacob made him a garment of many colours. Having concluded he enjoys a special favour while conducting himself in pride, they planned to send him on an errand he can never, never survive. One suggests killing him but Reuben wouldn't have them shed the blood of their own brother. When the opportunity avails them, they sold him into slavery to the Ishmaelites' traders. Their sole intention is, "to see what will become of his dream (Gen.37:20). You immediately know what they're fighting to hinder from that hateful speech?
Joseph's brothers are very commonsensical people and they're not different from how any average man would think. Joseph is constituting a threat to them and all they have to do is to eliminate his presence. That they have done. Having banished him to everlasting slavery, they have therefore set him on a path where all the things he had seen and predicted would never happen. Will he come back from slavery to rule over them? No! That's if he has not died before manifestation time. But this operation of Joseph's brother is the same that God now catches on to bring prophecies to pass. We all know who Joseph became and how his brothers ignorantly bowed before him.
What can be more than calling him, "lord?" When Joseph made himself known to them, as they sorrow and cry; Joseph keeps saying," God preserved him to raise him for their preservation." Later he says, "you meant it for evil but God meant it for good to save many people alive" (Gen.50:20).That's where that Psalm becomes effected. God on your side and God with Joseph made all done to him to become a key to fulfilling his destiny. They did their worst but God rose His best. At the end, it was as if Joseph had never being through slavery. When they even met him, they couldn't even find that mark on him. It's all gone. Joseph knows that. He knows God is with him and so, what can any man do unto him? What will betrayal reduce him to? It would only have effect except God is not. But if he has God by him like we read yesterday, He will turn all evil of men to advance him. Herein is fulfilled, "the Lord is on my side, I will not fear, what can man do to me?"
PRAYER: I banish the secret fear of what men can do to me? God is with me. I rise above fear.
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