SUNDAY - 14TH AUGUST, 2022
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
HE MEETS THOSE IN CONTEMPLATION - Lead and Feed Series 012
Read Matthew 1:18-25
Matthew 1:20, KJV
" 20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife..."
I said yesterday by the great stirring of the Holy Ghost that, "God would meet you as you carry at heart the burden to please Him. He'll come clear and clean to your aid on which path to take." God wasn't joking. The Spirit is destiny minded. God will meet you. If you've been so submissive to be led, do you think He'll withold? As you wait, you'll see His appearance. Until then, one can't but still be confused or unsettled with light doubt and least assurance on one's inside. Also, you'll be afraid stepping out in total conviction because there's a part of you beeping to remind you that you've not carried Him along. When we do however, He watches which way for us.
Joseph, the step dad of Jesus is a very just man. Having discovered that his fiancee is pregnant, he wouldn't have none of that and I'll say no man or woman should have none of that or continue in relationship with someone caught red handed in the act of fornication or with proofs of it. So, he secretly decided to break off from her. Being a just man, he had decided not to make her a scape goat. He assured himself He'll do it quietly. He won't even tell a friend or spread her infidelity around as to cause her shame, destroy her image or parents'. But as he contemplates on all these, a thoroughfare opened for a divine visitation. His thoughts which had reached the peak of a burdened heart were signalling heaven unknowingly. "Contemplation" means to think or ruminate on. You let things mix together inside you before acting the finally decided one. It shows the deliberateness of a thinking man (of process and thoroughness) who won't like to live a life of error leading to regrets. Nothing is taken at face value. They're all esteemed and carefully thought on. It is this byproduct that becomes an answer to act on. But I also know a better answer beyond the processed result of contemplation. It is divine guidance. As Joseph's contemplation continues over time, something unplanned and even unsolicited for in prayers happened. He was met in his dream. An angel told him otherwise, gave him reasons for it and encouraged him to have Mary for himself. Look at God. He sees our innermost thoughts. Our thoughts are loud before Him in the throne room. Joseph didn't pray. He was only pained, burdened, carrying the matter in His heart in order to be able to divide correctly on how to act. He was seeking for sense in the nonsense on ground and somehow he was losing his sense. That was all until the Balm of Gilead came to soothe him. He was met without shooting an utterance in prayer to God. Only contemplation! Yes, just rumination!
Look, as you mix and weigh that matter in your heart on either to do this or that i.e leave for abroad or stay (if it has finally become hot as to shoot steam to heaven); God will meet you. I have proved God. I'm not teaching what has never been rehearsed. God indeed answers thoughts and contemplations. I therefore entreat on your behalf now, let your contemplations draw God to you in Jesus' name. Over what you're beginning to go mad, yet trying to cover up, may God meet you. Have God meet you in your desperation, confusion over choices, weariness and doubt. He isn't a robot as not knowing your feelings. All touches Him. So, He sympathises with you. That's our High Priest. He so much sympathized and cared for Joseph as to show up at his juncture of confusion and decision. Behold, I see Him coming to give you discerning, distinctive and enlightening communication on what has been your contemplation, heart burden and thought. The Lord will not stop being your shepherd. He guides till the day is dawn.
PRAYER: Let the meditation of my heart draw your attention Lord. Behold my hollow and let my bitterness be swallowed.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Nehemiah 5:14 - 7:72; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13; Psalm 33:1-11; Proverbs 21:8-10
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