DCLM Daily Manna 9th September 2024 Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
TOPIC: Burn That Bridge
SCRIPTURE READING: Acts 19:13-20
KEY VERSE: “Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver” (Acts 19:19)
It was a practice in Roman warfare to destroy bridges. Most times, the bridges were destroyed behind the Roman armies in order not to be able to beat a retreat in their fight against the enemy. It is said that the great Caesar commanded his legions to burn the bridges behind him after crossing the Rubicon in 49 B.C. It was a show of no retreat, no surrender.
According to our text, the new believers in Ephesus knew the importance of starting afresh. They confessed and brought evidence of their former lives. Those who used curious, magical and occult arts brought their books together and burned them publicly, indicating their newfound faith and total break from their past.
When a genuinely converted sinner decides to follow Christ fully, he must destroy any link that could take him back to the world. This is not an assurance of an easy new life but a confirmation of absolute faith in Christ. Sadly, some Christians today profess Christ and yet keep some of the curious arts and fetish items they once used while in the world. If you fail to burn the bridge that links you to the world, you may one day want to walk back on that same bridge to the world.
A truly converted person has no business looking back. Christ has paid it all and said, “It is finished.” Therefore, burn that bridge that once connected you to sin and Satan. All you need as a believer is in Christ – grace for righteousness and holiness, power to overcome temptations and trials, provision, protection, healing, health, mercy, favour, etc. Above all, God will give you the grace to follow Him until you see Him face to face.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Burn the bridge that links you to the world so you would not have to go back on it.
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DCLM Daily Manna 8th September 2024 Devotional was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria