THURSDAY - 9TH OCTOBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
PAUL'S MANNER OF LIFE - My Manner of Life Series 006
"4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee."
Reading these verses above, you will have no doubt but to realize that "manner of life" refers to the lifestyle of an individual.
How have you lived? How do you live? What do you live out? Manner of life is a big umbrella. It houses belief, values, doctrines and what we have come to hold dear as how life should be run - which of course can spill over to one's diet, appearance, hobbies etc.
Paul, speaking before an examining group tells them that they have known his manner of life, and how he lives in accordance with the strictest order of the Pharisees.
Now, what has Paul said? There's a way Pharisees live and I once lived that way, according to those rules and all of that before I met Christ. Does it shock you?
Pharisees adhere to Jewish tradition like anything. They believe in the resurrection, angels and the afterlife. With zeal, Paul persecuted the church. He thought he was serving God by defending the law.
Acts 22:3-4, KJV
"3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women."
So, it's undebatable that manner of life is his life and lifestyle from his youth, which he now calls everybody to investigate if they want. Anyway, it is not hidden as Paul pointed out. Knowing what manner of life is, we shall proceed. But let's ask, what are you given to? What propels you? By what rules or standards do you live? What are your doctrines?
Or are you defenseless - having none. Just like an open gate that could be intruded into anytime.
PRAYER: Open my eyes to every manner of life I've cultivated that antagonizes the gospel or is ill health to me.
BIBLE IN A YEAR
Titus 2; Isaiah 62-64
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