THE
DAY OF RECKONING: Devotion for Wednesday August 10, 2016
Text:
Malachi 3: 13 – 18
Memory
verse: Malachi 3:18 – Then you shall again
discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and
one who does not serve Him
Few days before I wrote this devotion, I read
a story of a transgender who said that God is daft and senseless. My comment
was that she/he was digging her grave. If in this present age of knowledge, she
doesn’t know that there is a day of reckoning then she is a serious mistake to
the society. The act of this transgender turned lady now is similar to what we
have in Malachi 3:13, 14. How can a creature call the Creator senseless and daft?
This shows how depraved some people are in our present day society.
In 2014, there was a couple who publicly burnt
their Bible in Bonsac area of Asaba, Nigeria in protest against God for not giving
them a child after they had gone to many prayer houses, held weeks of fasting
and did many other things to gain God’s favour. Their action was
reciting the words in Malachi 3:14 that it is useless to serve God. There is a
challenge for us in Malachi 3:16 about encouraging one another especially in a
society as bad as ours today where economic stress, unemployment, kidnapping,
etc are confronting us daily. Family Bible Notes puts it thus: “When infidelity
and wickedness most abound in the community, then is the time for those who
fear God to be most diligent in speaking often one to another, and encouraging
each other in His service.” How often do we do this?
These people saw no need of serving God
because He does not notice and reward their empty and heartless forms of
religion. God cannot be mocked. You can only reap what you sow as seed. For
now, it may seem as if God put no difference between the righteous and the
wicked. However, He will one day make an everlasting separation between them,
such as all beings in heaven and hell shall well understand. This is the day of
reckoning. Where do you think you belong in this two – hell or heaven?
Food
for Thought: How
prepared are you towards the day of reckoning?
Prayer: Make me your jewel, O Lord, as I prepare for the day of reckoning so that my name will be in the book of remembrance in Jesus name.
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