MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Sunday June 12,
2020
Topic: Avoid Unnecessary Embarrassment
Text: Judges 6:1 – 5
Except
for God’s grace, men are naturally incline to sin. It is said that “To be
forewarned is to be forearmed.” God doesn’t punish a people without
first warning them except the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
One
of the warnings handed over to the people of Israel by God through Moses was
the warning of idol worship. It was a lengthy passage in the bible (Leviticus
26:14 – 46; Deuteronomy 28:15 – 68). Unfortunately, they couldn’t resist the
temptation. For the evil they committed, see Judges 2:13 and 19. Sin tends to
misery, and all the calamities which men suffer are tokens of God's displeasure
against it.
What
these neighbours of Israel did was to ensure there was no food in
Israel. Their mission was not to take their produce away but to destroy them.
It became embarrassment for the Israelites.
The
purpose of God's punishments is to call His people to repentance, that they may
seek help from Him. Such embarrassment on a nation was the consequences of sin
and disobedience to God. This is how devil embarrasses most pretenders to be
Christian. For example what took a Pastor to the bedroom of a parishioner when
only the wife of the man is at home? What is a condom doing in the bible of a
brother preaching inside the bus? How come a sister who told the world she was
a virgin give birth just 4 months after wedding?
As
Christians, our standards should be high. There is no compromise about it. You
may be hiding and compromising with sin but a day will come when God will
embarrass you. Beware!
Food for Thought:
Memory verse: Judges 6:4
Prayer:
God, remove anything that will make the enemies to embarrass me.
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