SUNDAY - 16TH NOVEMBER, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
THE MIRACLE OF TAKING HOLD WITH YOUR HANDS
Proverbs 30:28, KJV
"The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces."
Nobody can box you! Nobody can put a lid on you! Yes, just nobody if you'll borrow wisdom and strategy from the spider. You may be small and insignificant like him but your daily work and activities when accumulated together can bring you the needed glory and attention.
What many people are begging for or willing to pay their way for in order to secure access, you can actually have it if you're diligent enough to take hold with your hands. Over the years, I have met beggars on my journey. They beg for every favour and by this diminish themselves before those who should esteem them as equals or carve them their own space and respect. They sold themselves out so cheaply because they were thinking of themselves as not being able. For short, they felt they were incapacitated. So, the climbing they could have done by hard work was substituted for convenience. They thought great things happened on a platter of gold. They have cheap recognition which at day's end leads to loss of respect before whom they should have earned it.
To prevent this, God is coming with the wisdom of the spider to us this morning. If you're diligent, if you're a hard worker, if you're strategic, clinging to your vision in commitment, you will one day sit with those you once envy. They'll give you the honour you deserve, the one you fought your way for and not the one they cheaply conferred on you. That's why you must wait and not rush. What others are taking a short cut for but to lose in days to come, you must take the highway to have the same. Even Jesus, a space was not made for Him amidst the great and strong until He had sacrificed Himself for us.
Isaiah 53:12, KJV
"Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
He had to first apply Himself to the job before all the voices came to say, "well-done" - rewarding Him with a name that's greater than any other.
The spider is an insect or animal of no reputation but one way or the other, it eventually finds itself in king's palaces - honourable places that no mean man just secures. How did it do it? The Bible says, "the spider takes hold with its hands..."
Just by taking hold - by spurning thread upon thread, by keeping at its work, by labouring diligently and quietly, it got the opportunity it deserves to make it eventually to the king's palace one day. Does that not confirm another portion of the Bible that says, "the gift of a man makes a way for him and sets him before great people" (Prov. 18:16).
Only that, it is the taking hold with one's hand, that is, being skillful and working diligently with one's hands and initiative that brought the spider this promotion.
Other animals like the lizards are intruders. Lizards would enter the king palace without having applied itself to any hard work. It'll do just through the backdoors of cracks in the wall. However, not the spider. He begs to differ. It is rather the works of his hands that takes him to places. The spider here has the characteristics of David when he was found to stand and minister before Saul.
I Samuel 16:18, KJV
"Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him."
Irrespective of your background, race, status or gender, our world and guiding laws in it are responsive to this thing - a man who can take hold with his hands. A man of skill, the world will in no wise cast away.
You don't have to pray before you achieve some certain greatness as this verse tells us. When you act some way, you'll naturally reap the consequences of having acted that same way.
The Bible says, "the spider takes hold with its hands..." And just because of that, the next part says, "and is in kings' palaces." That is, "found there." Not by luck or wishes but by self application and pressing.
How many of you have watched the spider at work before? I haven't seen a better weaver than it. It does its work without arousing the dust. It applies itself to it without caring who watches or urges him on. The spider is a persevering and consistent fellow. It has overcome criticisms to not being deterred from its goals even when we destroy its webs. And as he spurns threads and thread upon threads, he enables himself to connect and have better mobility. As he does this, before you know it, his reach would have gotten to the distance unimaginable. By the time you turn your TV to watch the news, you'll just hear it is now in the kings' palaces. Then the great question, "how did he make it there?"
Why would anyone ask "how" now? Didn't we see him when he was labouring and applying himself to work, day and night? Should it now be surprising that his hardwork has eventually paid off and sent him to great places, amidst the great and strong?
I really don't like humans when they sarcastically ask such questions. In Romans 8:26, the Bible says, "Likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities..." The key word is "help" from the Greek Word that means, "to take hold together with someone, to take hold on the opposite side or to jointly lift a burden." That's another place where the idea of "taking hold" is portrayed in the Bible though we have other references like this one below.
Proverbs 31:13, KJV
"She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands."
Why these two connect is because they emphasize grip, support, enablement, hard work, involvement, engagement and persistence.
If you'll take hold with your hands, only God knows how far you'll go. The spiders took hold in all diligence and before we all know it, it has spurned webs to access kings' palaces. What you do and what you're known for can bring you exaltation and bring you before great people.
So, take hold with your hands.
PRAYER: I receive renewed energy, consistency and an unbreakable spirit. I will persist until the sunrise.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Rev. 2 ; Daniel 4-6
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