TUESDAY - 20TH FEBRUARY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
SEPARATED UNTO SOLITUDE - Separated Unto Purpose Series 002
Luke 2:42-43, KJV
"42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it."
If you have not discovered solitude, you can't make discoveries. Those who ever drag something from the world of ideas to that of realities are those who have learnt to cultivate and embrace intentional solitude. You have heard that the animal called sloth sleeps in its entirety for 18 hours out of 24 daily. If it ever wakes up, it'll be to nimble at its food.. While the sloth wastes time and wastes away (because it does nothing significant with its solitude than sleeping), you must arise today as a reasonable man to tear from your busy schedule and hurly-burly life a time for yourself and to be with your calling.
Things develop in solitude without the viewing eyes of the public. That's why a Bible verse like this is written.
Ecclesiastes 11:5, KJV
"As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all."
You see, the foetus grows in solitude to become a baby in a woman's womb. It's this that eventually becomes the tangibility or product that we call a child. If you'll ever give birth to tangibilties or products, you'll need to separate yourself from the crowd to begin to fellowship and relate with your calling solitarily or in a close group. Moreso, with things or people that can feed your calling. There's no one who attains mastery who doesn't thrive or leverage solitude. Many times when you read the synoptic gospels, you'll see Jesus being called master or rabbi. It just was not conferred on him. He just didn't become a master through the revelation of things he had effortlessly from God but through things he acquired and became by time through the intentionality of cultivating solitude. One of such story is still what I narrate now.
Did you observe that it was solitude Jesus was operating when he tarried back at Jerusalem instead of going home with his family, kinsfolk and acquaintances. I wished you were there when the return to Jerusalem was being made. People were just chit-chatting, making comedy and coasting along. Much of those people looked like lost souls who don't have aim or destination. They just flooded the road, flocked together and laughed together. However, here's a twelve year old boy who not only dare to dream to become a minister but who begins to take action towards becoming that man God uses by staying with or hanging around places and people who would inspire and groom him for same. The separation from the crowd into an enclosure with doctors or teachers of the law is his own solitude. That was his time to service his calling. Also, it was his refusal to company with the general masses who have no vision of what says the time. Jesus understood time. Despite just being twelve years old, he saw the reason for a separation to train and acquire from the best of his days. No one just arrives. It's the accumulation he has gathered over the years that'll raise him up - making him distinct or known. Don't let anybody deceive you about learning and training your calling. Even Jesus trained his as we saw here. If not, he need not ask questions or listen to doctors of the law speak. Though he impressed them with his responses, he yet learnt and was impacted by what they taught.
You need solitude - a separation from the chatter box of noise of this world. You need time face to face with your calling to groom your calling. To do that, you must be deliberate to ever seek for time and moment to let the crowd go while you tarry with your calling or what can inflame it. Solitude is where diligence is beginning to be given to make your calling and election sure. You may be called and not be known with your call or felt at all because you have refused to solitarily give attention in solitude to learn the ingredients of your calling or life's task. Dare separate yourself. Don't let the crowd freak you. If you're a scientist, begin to spend some good six hours daily in the laboratory and see if no discovery would come out of that in let's say some ten years to come. Today, tarry behind and be separated unto solitude. Let family loose, let kinsfolk go and desire not to see acquaintances around until you've daily fulfilled your obligation as your calling demands.
PRAYER: I overcome the daily temptation of wasting time. I give priority to what matters.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Leviticus 7:28-9:6, Mark 3:31-4:25, Psalm 37:12-29, Proverbs 10:5
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