MONDAY- 2ND JUNE, 2025
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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD - Minding Your Calling Series 002
Matthew 8:21, 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."
How easily we are distracted in this life! Today, God will be meeting the needs of those of you who have received certain instructions from God but have receded from it. Some of you know you're called for sure and that you've heard the Master's voice saying, "you, follow me." However, over time, you have had need to stop following to go back to the things Jesus saved you from. He saved you from the distraction of, "all these things (riches in the world)" that you're now pursuing when He told you to follow Him in discipleship so He could make you a fisher of men and deliver you into your calling like He made of the apostles in the Bible.
However, what's the story we're reading about you now? That you've gone back. That you've backslided. Though you began with Jesus but you didn't walk the whole miles. You went back somewhere. You went back to your vomit and became a sorry case.
That Bible portion we're considering says, "you follow me but let the dead bury their dead."
It is their dead - their responsibility and affairs to take care of. When you were called to follow Jesus so you could be delivered into ministry, you were saved from the chase of those common things. God is saying I should tell you, "you have a bounty (calling) on your head. You have received a call to follow Me as an apprentice so you can become a master someday in the calling." It means you have to be focused, concentrated on your training and the lifestyle that'll make you that outcome. You therefore cannot or should not be caught minding the businesses of other men who haven't received your own call.
What God is advocating for is specialization of jobs. Each of you have received your tasks. Why should you now be called from your own divine call and task to the secular and common again?
Mind your business brethren is the voice re-echoing.
PRAYER: May I not entangle myself with the common.
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
John 17:1-26 & I Chronicles 9-10
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