SATURDAY - 2ND MARCH, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
HAPPY NEW MONTH!!!
YOU AND THE MEMBERS OF YOUR CALLING
Genesis 45:5, KJV
"Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
Your calling has a purpose and end to it. Moreso, there are people who are allocated and connected to your calling from the Lord. If you heed your calling, you'll find this to be true. You'll observe that there are those your calling is meant to save or give its ministry to. Every calling is sent and meant to be benefited by some carved out people.
In today's Bible reading, we read of Joseph. He confessed that he was sent ahead of his brethren to preserve life - their lives. What he became was a platform for them to live. Joseph was promoted, achieving such prominence for their sakes. Joseph has a calling and that exact statement - "of being raised to preserve their lives" is why God raised his calling up. The people who are divinely attached to his calling are his brethren or the whole of Israel - the entire family of Jacob then. So, as he rises, they were meant to rise with him. Every calling has jurisdiction. Yours may be individual, family or nation targeting. As for the calling of Joseph, it was nation targeting. It was not only to save the nation Egypt but rather to preserve his own family - the nation of Israel. God is committed to His people and if His promise of Israel becoming a vast people (as made to Abraham) would come to pass, they needed to be preserved from what could extinct them. This way, God sets a plan in motion. It was "Operation Joseph in Egypt."
This is why all of us must fulfil our calling and become who God said we should become. Not fulfilling your calling means leaving some people to suffer somewhere. Imagine what would happen if Jesus didn't become the minister He became. First, those in the region and shadow of death upon whom light has sprung eventually wouldn't be able to receive any light (Matt.4:16). They would have continued in darkness, being diversely buffeted by Satan. Then, Jesus wouldn't have been able to benefit the whole world by saving us from our sins. So you see, every calling has its membership or coverage. The membership coverage of Jesus' calling is the whole world. No wonder, John 3:16 says, "for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
You are not been raised for yourself. You are being raised for some people. The fate of some people are attached to you. What you become might be what they'll become. Without you becoming anything, they might not find a voice and a platform for themselves. Imagine if Joseph had eaten the forbidden apple - slept with his boss' wife. He wouldn't have made it thus far to the palace let alone becoming such a significant leader of influence that'll open Egypt to his own family members. So, what the devil does is to waylay you and hinder you from achieving the purpose of your calling. He was seeking to do that to Jesus as well. Jesus Himself got to a place where He said in contemplation, "if it pleases You (the Father), make this cup pass over me" (Luke 22:42). If it had passed, there wouldn't have been any potency sealing our redemption. We would have remained lost and irredeemed.
Before you backslide, allow laziness or other distraction to take you away from walking on the road of your calling, think of the so many faces that may be connected to your calling. When the Bible says, "the hart pants after streams of water" (Psalm 42:1), I'll like you to know that the "streams of water" has found its purpose just by the hart drinking from it. It has found who the member of its calling is and who to minister to. That's the hart that out of thirst from a long distance would come to drink from it. God didn't create the stream for itself but that it'll give drink to others. If an ordinary inanimate creation of God is registering purpose, what about you? You don't want people who are created and attached to your calling to wait still not finding expression because you eventually didn't pursue your calling or didn't become anything with it. Thank God Joseph didn't disappoint Israel for whom he was sent ahead. Thank God Jesus didn't disappoint the entire world that He was to save from their sins (Matt.1:21). May you too not disappoint the members of your calling. If Adam had thought it well that his decision of eating just one apple would be far consequential and disappointing, he wouldn't have done so. Death came into the world and spread to all of us just through one man - because of his sin. However, thank God that just as death came into the world by one, so also we have and receive life by one! (Rom.5:17-19). While somebody disobeys; another adheres. May you adhere; therefore bringing consolation and your calling's ministry to those afore ordained of the Father. May anyone awaiting your manifestation not be disappointed. If you don't know, there are those in darkness and in the region and shadow of death who are waiting for your calling and the deliverance it will avail to be unveiled. May you ever stand up.
PRAYER: Lord, I stand up. I heed and pursue my calling. I bring ministry and ministration to many - the hope of the nations.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Leviticus 24:1-25:46, Mark 10:13-31, Psalm 44:9-26, Proverbs 10:20-21
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