MONDAY - 26TH JANUARY, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
WARNING TO THOSE GROOMING THE FIRE OF LUST - Control Lust Series 004
" And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money."
The Bible says, "Naboth has a vineyard near Ahab's palace" (V.1). That was before verse 2 where Ahab goes to ask for the vineyard because he has the vision/plan of making it a vegetable garden. First of all, I'm praying for you that you won't meet the likes of Ahab in life. They are those who reduce a vineyard to a vegetable garden. They reduce something of greater worth to nothingness just for their pleasure and consumerism culture. What is a vegetable garden to a vineyard? Which will be priced higher? May we know our value and worth so that we can reject what patronizes us and seeks to exchange value with worthlessness.
I want you to see something in the speech of Ahab to Naboth. Ahab confesses without shame that his plan is to make the vineyard a vegetable garden after it might have been sold to him or exchanged for another. It means before Ahab comes out to tell Naboth this, he had mused and thought of how best and in what capacity that piece of land would serve. As a matter of fact, he had already imagined vegetables growing there for his own household's use. He has imagined different types of vegetables even from oriental lands being planted there. He could smell the aroma of the vegetable coming from the royal kitchen and filling his stomach. For short, he had finished every plan on paper before coming to meet Naboth for that farmland.
And do you know what, he never foresees rejection. Being the king, he could have believed that the farm would even be turned to him in obeisance and at no price. However, he received the shock of his life when that one tells him it is an inheritance he is not willing to part away.
This is how responsible and preservative of godly heritage we should be. It is that shocker or rejection that turns the eyes of Ahab sour. Before the death of Naboth was ever planned, what would not allow both Ahab and Jezebel rest until they have the farmland is lust - insistence to have something even if it compromises moral standards. Lust always pushes people to neglect moral codes or conducts. Rather, it makes them selfish - only seeing their needs and how they'll be benefited.
It is lust that pushed for the panel of elders and the false witnesses that were leveled unjustly at Naboth. All those actions fulfill another scripture that says.
James 4:1-2, KJV
"1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not."
What these verses say are true of what Ahab and Jezebel did to Naboth in order to dispossess him of his possession, therefore taking it over. Those two verses expose what causes quarrels and fights among people (as it was with Ahab and Naboth). Such comes from the evil desires at war within the individual. "You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them."
Those are the exact similar road that Ahab and Jezebel walked to collect for themselves what they seriously lusted after. The lust was so strong in Ahab that when he was rejected, he turned down food with a swollen face. As in, Ahab acted like a baby that needed consolation. Indeed, he was not consoled until Jezebel, the 'husband' in skirt assures him of getting the vineyard for him.
Brethren, your evil desire or lust can lead you to scheme and kill. It could get to that extent if you groom or grow those evil or carnal desires in you. This is a warning not to go the path of Ahab and Jezebel because those who do will have their outcome (I Kings 21:19-24).
PRAYER: Lord, withhold my feet from running an unprofitable business. May I maintain my stand not to compromise in the face of pressure.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Exodus 2:11-3:22; Matthew 17:10-27; Psalm 22:1-18; Proverbs 5:7-14
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