SATURDAY- 19TH AUGUST, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
AT SEVENTEEN!
Genesis 37:2, KJV
"These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report".
Imagine what we have above! Joseph being seventeen years old was feeding the flock of his father with his brethren. Just at seventeen or at seventeen!
Number is not just for mentioning. It's for a purpose. That verse also reveals something in association with Joseph's age. It calls him a "lad" who feeds the flock with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. That should tell you something that's obvious. While David is seventeen years old, just a lad and has entered into active activity and active service, the people he does it with are way older than him. It's not any surprise that they are going about their father's business but we should have our attention commanded reading about the enrollment of Joseph with them as a shepherd (when the Bible calls him a lad).
"...and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah". These are the children of the two maids and Jacob has found none other to enroll Joseph with but them. May you be wise to be enrolled early with those who are known to be professionals in their fields.
If at seventeen, Joseph feeds his father's flocks and has the testimony of just being a lad, this should tell you how much God wants you to straighten up and discover what to live for. Careless living at one's early age is a curse and inhibition to the satisfactory fulfilment of purpose. If we can find a boy to enroll into service with others who we could call professionals, then such boy ought to be praised for having come early. God wants you to come early. He wants you to begin in the way you'll go that early. Destiny training shouldn't be something that'll await your years to come. It should be foundational so that you might learn and run with it.
You can have the testimony of pasturing and feeding the flock with those who have been there for long. You may be the youngest in that practice or profession yet your being young doesn't denote stupidity, inadequacy or professional foolishness. As we see of Joseph, he even exercises responsibility and leadership trait by bringing their evil report to their father. The same work the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (who could be said to have attained) do is what Joseph does. All of them are pasturing and feeding their father's flocks but here's a seventeen years old boy with them. That's a boy whose attention could have been on some other things. However, the father has chosen for him a training to ready him for the future. Anyone who relents the process for you is destroying you. They're secretly making you inadequate. Rather, don't let anyone despise your youth. Prove to be capable like Joseph. Exceed expectation as a young chap that you are. Do this by finding an enterprise to enroll in this early.
Do remember that Joseph was just seventeen (a lad, a boy) when he feeds his father's flocks with the mature sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. You can be this fortunate to be reputed to have started this early.
PRAYER: Lord, may I be weaned early and given to purpose and known to match along in purpose with those reputed for it.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Esther 4:1-7:10; 1 Corinthians 12:1-26; Psalm 36:1-12; Proverbs 21:21-22
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