WEDNESDAY - 27TH MARCH, 2024
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
THE GRASS ON THE HOUSETOP
Read Psalm 129
Psalms 129:6, KJV
"Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up."
Very well, you must have seen the grass on the house top before. Eastern houses are built in such a way that grasses do grow on them. However, they lack root. It is difficult for grasses on the house top to send their roots into a cemented or concreted block for instance. As such, they only make do with the little sandy portion on which they're existed.
Lacking root, they therefore have one destiny - to wither sooner and as soon as they grow out. That's why that place says, "let them be as the grass upon the house top which withers before it grows up." The grass on the house top has therefore become synonymous with holding hope and not manifesting it. It may grow out but it doesn't grow up. It may be born but it doesn't mature.
In the Yoruba culture of the people of Nigeria, the word "abiku" reveals this. Two Nigerian poets in Wole Soyinka and J.P. Clark Bekederemo have written poems with the same title though different thematic preoccupation. "Abiku" which is translated "born to die" reveals what a grass on the house top is. It might delight anyone that grasses are growing out here; however, it soon shrinks and dwindles for lack of depth as soon as it grows out. Then it dies. The grass on the housetop is therefore a type of 'born to die' that analogizes how many started with a hope of great success yet only to be stopped, eradicated from the race by a circumstance or equation unexplainable and to the termination of their destiny. They therefore become like this proverbial verse of the Bible that says, "having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof" (II Tim.3:5).
The grass on the house top if it be a child isn't one that'll tarry with his parents till old age. The family might rejoice having him but he will swallow up or cave in even before the eight day. You see, he's such who gave a hope of gigantic future but to still and seal it without looking back. Though because of being born many rejoice and smile; yet by his soon departure, many shall also be put off. That's why the Psalmist having this revelation prays that the wicked shall be like a grass growing upon the house top which, "the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom" (Psalm 129:7). What does that mean? No matter how promising the grass upon the house top may hold promises, it'll never manifest it. This is therefore a very strong revelation and prayer point. May this revelation not play out in your life. As soon as you start your life at birth, may you go all the way into adulthood and maturity to actualize your being born. The mower is he who weeds grasses away while he that binds the sheaves is an harvester. As for the grass on the house top, their destiny is that they don't grow to give joy of harvest to any of these. They may start the race but they don't always complete the cycle. They don't even grow to the extent where passers-by would see such farm of wheat to envy or bless it. If you remember, Jesus while living His ordained life was blessed from the crowd but they don't (Lk.11:27). They're taken out before then. They're therefore like the proverbial gourd plant which the Lord planted in a night and died out in a night after which it had accomplished its purpose of creation (Jonah 4:10). Nothing different from the seed that Jesus alludes to which when sown falls on the rock but for lack of depth withers after quickly springing up (Mark 4:5-6). They're also not different from what Lenrie Peters, the Gambian poet described in these lines.
"At twenty stilled by hope of gigantic success, time and exploration/ At thirty... Copy book bisected with red ink and failures - nothing to show the world."
That poet was saying, at the age of twenty, one is robust with hope and expectation of a bright future. But about thirty thereabout or upward when one checks, one realizes there's nothing to show for his life."
Today, I'm anointed of God to separate you from such end. This is not what the Bible says about the path of the just that shines more and more unto the perfect day (Prov.4:18). The Bible acknowledges in Job 8:7 that "though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase." On this note, I proclaim on you a difference in life and experience. Where people in your ancestry have shown hope without manifestation, you won't walk same road. You're delivered from every born to die experience. As you rise as a youth, you'll go all the way to fulfill your calling or purpose. Your parents who are metaphoric of the mowers and harvesters will reap your benefit at their old age. You're preserved in destiny and for purpose. Anything awaiting like a time bomb to take you out now or later, I detonate it in your life by the anointing. Whereever you're already marked and appointed to death like a sheep led to the slaughter, I request for your life in Jesus' name and call you back. I'm hearing, "the Lord has need of you." God has need of you. This is the claim on that donkey Jesus rode. For that reason, you're preserved and sealed. So shall it be.
ACTION: Anoint yourself and children with oil and claim a new lot. Confess Psalm 16:5-6.
PRAYER: I claim the path of the just. I'm separated and sanctified from the manifestation of ancestral curses in my lineage. I shall not be vexed, frustrated or gagged by curses. I breakthrough.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Deuteronomy 4:1-49, Luke 6:39-7:10, Psalm 68:1-18, Proverbs 11:28
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