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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD - Minding Your Calling Series 001
Matthew 8:21 - 22, KJV
"21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead."
I believe I am called and that I am anointed to bring an anointed explanation to my audience as I teach. Over the years, this has been proven beyond any shadow of doubt to God's glory.
In Good Morrow by John Donne, the poet writes:
"Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one."
In this monologue, the speaker's address is to a lover. Despite the many ongoing activities or businesses in the world they live in at that time, he (the speaker) canvasses for solitude time with the lover where both of them could intertwine. It's for this reason the poet says, "let sea discoverers to new worlds have gone..." It means while they are busy discovering new worlds (because that's their own assignment which they love more than life), we also shall be busy, wrapped in each others' arms - enjoying love (in our own cocoon).
These expounded lines have a message to pass to you. We all cannot be busy on a thing. We've been given different subject matters and assignments to mind in this life. While sea discoverers to new worlds have gone, the speaker is rather possessing one world with the lover. He begs to differ!
What a world! A world of many assignments and mandates. A world where we have arrays of vocations that call men to themselves and from which men must choose which one they'll give their lives or time to.
That's why a statement like, "you, follow me but let the dead bury their dead" finds fulfillment as a reality. In the next few days, may you be well rounded in calling, consecration and the need to pursue with all diligence that which you have been called and separated to.
The poet speaker in this poem does not have eyes for going on wide and bogus adventures to find new sea or trade routes or discover new worlds. Rather, he's concerned with home and cordial affairs with the lover. He has found something to mind and concentrate on different from what others esteem and are dying for. That's why the Bible says:
Psalms 104:16-18, KJV
"16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies."
As for the stork (a type of bird), the fir trees are her house. That's the colony she has found to colonize, enjoy and live in. But the same does not apply to the wild goats. The high hills are her house while again the conies choose the rocks to live in.
You'll see that all of them are not called to colonize the same territory. They rather have a focus on which particular area to subdue or colonize. As for the wild goats, look no more, the high hills are her house! Are you looking to contact the wild goats? Go to the high hills.
What catches our attention or what we give it to will always be different. In this life and in your race as a Christian, may it be that it'll be only your calling that'll command your attention and have you fully. Amen!
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 16:17-33 & I Chronicles 7-8
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