THURSDAY - 9TH MAY, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
REPAIR YOUR BROKEN ALTAR
I Kings 18:30, KJV
"And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down."
God is ready to meet man if man is ready to meet God. "Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear" (Isaiah 59:1-2, KJV). God still yearns having you and if you'll respond, He shall receive you. The Bible says, "come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18, KJV).
Speaking of altar, I do not intend a table in your home on which images or candles are placed. "God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). As such, the altar you have to repair is your heart being in good union and communion with God. If intimacy has been broken, you must come to repentance once and seek God with all your heart.
The act of Elijah in today's reading teaches us that. At about the time that revival would occur in Israel, what he did first was to repair the broken altar. An altar is a place of fellowship with a superior being - God in our case. He had to restore the altar which for awhile had been broken down and neglected. "Broken down" explains its being out of use, being forlorn and substituted by other altars. Before anything else, he repairs it first of all. Elijah didn't start by crying unto God to send down fire. No! He rather first of all reconstructed the bridge between Israel and God, giving God the ownership right over Israel by repairing the altar through which they could contact Him and vice versa. He sought first of all to restore exchanges and communication between God and them. While he chooses 12 stones and restores the broken altar, you must seek to repent of your having substituted God with other pursuits and go back to such activities that allow God to possess and use you.
Where has your altar been broken down? Where has it been neglected? Where has cobwebs and dust settled on it? For some, the dust has settled on their Bibles because it has been long they drew it out to learn of God. It were even okay if it were only dust, cobwebs now cover some. A witness to a broken altar. Some can't bear witness to what it means to pray again. Their altar have been broken down. No more interaction or fellowship between they and God. Only God knows when last some heard from Him. Even those fellows in question can't recall when in particular. God is calling you to a return to your altar. He's saying, "repair your broken altar". Let your zeal with which you pursued after God previously rises. Like a hart, pant after God who alone satisfies. However, you need to make ready. Let go of vain pursuits and give all other things that have come to replace God their second places in your life. Be ready at heart having repented of neglect and the sin of abandonment of intimacy with God. If you shall come seeking God once more, He shall answer you even with fire on your altar. He shall prove to be God and God again to you.
PRAYER: Father, I repent of neglect and abandonment of fellowship with you. I am restored and made fine.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: 1 Samuel 2:22-4:22, John 5:24-47, Psalm 106:1-12, Proverbs 14:30-31
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