MONDAY - 6TH JANUARY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
FULL OF THEM - Full of Them Series 006
Psalm 127:5, NLT
"5 How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates."
The Bible didn't say, "how joyful is the man or woman who has one?" It rather says, "how joyful is the man or woman whose quiver is full of them." We all know what a quiver is. We know it houses arrows. But beyond that, arrows housed in a quiver are in a state of continuous sharpening as they grind, press or go to and fro in the quiver. The quiver houses and sharpens therefore. That's the function and role of any parent. Not only to house, provide shelter and other welfare for their wards but to train them for destiny purpose or for their individual calling.
Arrows in a quiver are being reserved for use. There's no arrow drawn from the quiver by a shooter that undergoes another sharpening before being put to use. No! No one does that. It is believed that they are ready already. Only that they're in a waiting state. Getting ready for demands to be made on them or for their names to be called for a specific purpose.
A hunter might see an antelope now and draw an arrow from the arrays he has in his quiver and shoot it at that animal. The purpose that serves would be killing the hunt. He might draw another only for the purpose of making a mark on a tree or plucking something from a tree. So, arrows don't have the same specific assignment though all might hope to be sent on errand when there's a debate, clamouring, accusation and struggling at the gate.
Just like a father or mother do have his quiver full of them, a nation can have her quiver full of them. So much more that when they're counting world renown, influential or most impacting persons, they'll keep referring to a particular country. There's no way you can talk of Nobel Laureates and not remember the Jews who off course are of mixed heritage/parentage of Blacks. Such people would mean the gifts their ethnicity or country has given to humanity or the entire human race. Those are therefore arrows that have gone out of the quiver of that nation to bless the world in Invention, Fintech, Science or what have you.
A day would come when people would ask, "what has your own nation contributed or for short, what have you contributed?" May you be able to say in the midst of that jangling and accusation that, "do you see that person? He is from us. You see that other person, he won a Nobel Laureate and he's our citizen." It is that that settles the matter.
That is why the man whose quiver is full of them is joyful. He is joyful at what they can become or be used to do. Imagine if it were one man who fathered Pele, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. They'll be deemed to be arrows from that man sent into different spheres to have effects. That's why that man is not described as "happy" having only one but having many and having them fill up his quiver like Joseph who brought Ephraim and Manasseh from between his knees. His father asked, "who are these?" His reply was, "they're the children God has given me in this place."
When you're questioned or when the need arises, may you have representatives to present. May your family, nation, continent not lack such great men that we can look back and in turn dubb as arrows because they manifested as same. Indeed, happy is the man whose quiver is full of them and that's because he can and will be represented well.
PRAYER/CONFESSION: I am not ordinary but mighty and renown. When national saviours and deliverers are called, I am one.
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