WEDNESDAY - 13TH MARCH, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
SOWING BEGAT REAPING
Luke 19:21, KJV
"For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow."
That's a principle being highlighted in that verse. If you have not sown, you ought not to reap and if you haven't laid down, why take up? First of all, memorize that so you won't begin to anticipate where you've not scattered. You may wonder, who does that? Yet, there are people who expect from where they have not given.
If this verse be true (which it is), it means its reverse will also be true. He that sows must reap. It's on this wise the master of this servant is vindicated over him. He has sown and he should reap. I only wonder why this uncommensensical servant couldn't see that the deposit with him is His master's seed or investment to him. While the master settles accounts with others and with favourable responses on their proves of yield, this one has nothing to present. He rather accuses his master, calling him an austere man. Do you know the meaning of that? It means, "hard" or "brutal." He accuses him of expecting to reap where he has not sown. Who does that? If that were true of his master, that would have made him a truly hard man. It's only an investment you have not put down you shouldn't expect a dime on. If you do, you're simply a robber and a rebel. As a matter of fact, you're the most difficult man that ever be.
However, this servant out of blindness refuses to see. Envy of others huge talents could have made him bury his. He probably accounted his to be too little or depressing to do anything. However, the master knows their capacity and as a gentleman that he is, he won't request of them when he has not given them at all let alone ask more than he has entrusted to each. That's why his reply goes thus. "22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?" (Luke 19:22-23, KJV). You see, what's the master proving with him? That he has sown to him and he ought to reap an interest in what he has given? On this wise, he's justified over him.
God has given to us all. We might not have been endowed equally but this is also a prove that we won't be expected from equally. All of us are meant to live a purposeful life with God's investment, talent, gift, anointing, inspiration on or in us. A day of reckoning will come when you'll give account of your stewardship. May you be found faithful. May you not give a lame excuse seeking to accuse God for not endowing you obviously like the stars or superstars of your day. May you live life to the fullest at your level of endowment - knowing that God is not an austere man who doesn't request where He has not given and who doesn't request more than He gave.
PRAYER: Lord, may I not be stupid and churlish in business. May I always seek to bring profit and glory to You who has created and endowed me.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Numbers 11:24-13:33, Mark 14:22-52, Psalm 52:1-9, Proverbs 11:1-3
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