Yesterday’s message was titled “THE QUALIFIED ”. Today’s
message is titled “THE BREVITY OF TIME” as provided by Pastor E. A.
Adeboye in Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have
been asked to memorise Romans 13:12 "The night is
far spent, the day is at hand: let us there cast off the works of darkness, and
let us put on the armour of light." and read Romans 13:11-14. The Bible in one year for today has
been taken from Daniel 3:1 to Daniel 4:33 and Psalm 78:9-16.(Adeboye, 2014).
Quoted below is today's message for our usual discussion
"How recklessly this age speeds on to self destruction! H The word
of God is accurate and authentic in its prediction of the latter. end of the
world and in warning His saints of the end times,so that they are not overtaken
by the prevalence of evil in this age! In ‘virtually every facet of life, there
is an overturning of rightness. Theologically and philosophically, there is a
denial of the absoluteness of truth, hence they talk of relativism i.e. right
is relative; what is morally right to a people of culture A is not necessarily
right to people of culture B. Thus, the culture of people is held higher and
given prominence above the word of God. They stretch human rights beyond
scripturally accepted limits — anything anybody's warped mind desires should not
be denied him though it is self destructive. Things that would receive outright
condemnation some thirty years ago are now fashionable. Otherwise, what would
you say about homosexuality, where presidents are giving public recognition and
approval to gay practices? Not only that, they are threatening other nations
that would not do same. There is an increasing degree of selfishness at the
highest level, which makes few people in government enrich themselves and
impoverish the masses. Domestic crimes have taken a worse turn, with incidents
of husbands driving knives into the throat of their wife. Knowledge is
increasing at an astronomical rate, giving rise to changing trends of
technological sophistication. This in itself has affected human behaviour greatly,
and sometimes, these technologies enable men to commit sophisticated dirty and
wicked acts.
No doubt, the enemy knowing that his time is short is not sparing
anything in his arsenal to destroy humanity and to infuriate God. In all these,
you will not be a victim in Jesus‘ Name. I pray for you that the dragnet of
evil in this present time will not catch up with you in Jesus‘ Name. The Bible
says we are kept by the power of God (1 Peter 1:5). You must realise that all
these evil things that are rampant nowadays are indicative of the soon coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, you must live every moment in earnest
expectation of Christ (Titus 2:11-14). As one of the five wise virgins (Matthew
25:1 -9), you must have no time for idleness or idle talk. You should be busy
serving the Lord, winning souls and living holy. You must also be prayerful,
interceding for your family members and others."
Today's action point is to Check your
commitment to Jesus and meditate on how you can fulfill the instructions in the
memory verse.
As we meditate on the memory verse today (Romans 13:12: "The
night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us there cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."), I pray for the grace to double our efforts in soul winning and
consciousness of the Lord's second coming especially at this time whereby sin
and immorality normal daily occurrence in our community
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