DCLM Daily Manna Devotional 7th September 2023
DCLM Daily Manna 7th September 2023, Deeper Life Daily Devotional for Thursday written by Pastor W.F Kumuyi
TOPIC: Directionless Man
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KEY VERSE: “O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps” (Jeremiah 10:23).
TEXT: Jeremiah 10:17-25
God created man to have great aspirations for progress in all spheres of his endeavours. Man engages himself in unceasing search for material things upon which he depends for relief and change of circumstances. However, it is regrettable that these ways of man generally carry him from one trouble into another and into fruitless directions.
Jeremiah laments the decision of the Lord to sling out the inhabitants of the land, to cause them distress and grief. According to our text, the north country was to be used by God to make Judah desolate and a den of dragons for their impenitence and hardness of heart. Even their pastors had become brutish and refused to seek the Lord and were all scattered abroad. Jeremiah reminded God of the directionless state of man without His assistance and mercy.
Man’s effort will continue to be futile except he receives help from God. In his natural state, he cannot obey God perfectly or meet His high standard, though he may be kind and humanitarian. For him to find God and be in the right direction, he must be a new creature in Christ and discard old sinful lifestyles (2 Corinthians 5:17). To have the new birth experience, he must renounce his waywardness, repent, confess his sins wholeheartedly and receive Jesus as Lord and Saviour.
It is only when a person discovers Christ and His saving power that the secret of the right path of life is revealed to him. The love of God fills the heart to do His will as angels in heaven, with no pleasure for the flesh and the world. As with salvation experience, sanctification and baptism of the Holy Spirit are instantaneous. God roots out the adamic nature to plant His divine nature, which directs one’s life positively on earth to serve Him and take overcomers to His kingdom at last.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Man cannot direct his life without Christ.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
PSALM 101 – 104
About Author – Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
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