ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS
Monday February 4th, 2024.
Topic : God First.
Memory Verse: .Genesis 22:5. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Bible Reading : Genesis 22:2-4 NIV. Key Verse: v3.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
This was a very difficult test that the Lord gave to father Abraham. God took him from his father’s house to a foreign land, a land where he learnt to depend on God for everything instead of his own people. God fulfilled his promises of blessing him in everything, except child bearing. He had to patiently wait in unwavering trust till God came through for him and Isaac, the son of promise was born. As Abraham settled down with joy to raise his son of promise before the Lord, this very difficult test was handed to him one day as he spent time in God’s presence. This test was all about his love and commitment to God. God wanted to know what he valued most in his heart. The only reason he was able to obey God was because God came first in his order of priorities rather than the blessing who is Isaac.
“So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied. Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.” Deuteronomy 11:13-17.
Today we have understanding that idols are not just images or woodworks kept somewhere that misinformed men bow down to worship. We know that they include anything that takes the place of God in our lives. An idol is anything that can make a man to disobey God. Abraham was able to prove to the Lord that though he loved his son whom he patiently waited for about 25 years, that Isaac didn’t have what it takes to make him disobey God and put a clog in the wheel of his relationship with God. Today we need to understand that men are praying for blessing everywhere, but God himself is looking for men whom he will decorate with enormous riches and wealth, who will be mature enough not to allow what God gives them to exercise control over them as to become an idol in their hearts. “I make a vow by my own name — the Lord is speaking — that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me, I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.” Genesis 22:16-17.
Prayer : Thank you Father God for using men of old to teach me wisdom in my relationship with you. I pray that you help me to to love and put first in everything I do. Don’t allow anything you have blessed me with become an idol to me in Jesus wonderful name….. Amen 🙏🏿.
Yearly Bible Reading : Joshua 9:1-27.
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