DCLM Daily Manna Monday 3 June 2024, Daily Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
TOPIC: Faithfulness In Little Things
READ: 2 Kings 22:1-7 (KJV)
1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.
2 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
3 Now it came to pass, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the scribe, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the Lord, saying:
4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.
5 And let them deliver it into the hand of those doing the work, who are the overseers in the house of the Lord; let them give it to those who are in the house of the Lord doing the work, to repair the damages of the house–
6 to carpenters and builders and masons–and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
7 However there need be no accounting made with them of the money delivered into their hand, because they deal faithfully.”
KEY VERSE:
“Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.” – (2 Kings 22:7).
DCLM Daily Manna Monday 3 June 2024 – MESSAGE
It was Dr. F. B. Meyer who said, “Do not waste your time waiting and longing for large opportunities, which may never come. But faithfully handle the little things that are always claiming your attention”.
The key word in today’s passage is faithfulness. The text contains an account of Josiah’s righteous reign in Judah. In the eighteenth year of his reign, he sent his servants to the temple to Hilkiah the high priest to collect and deliver the proceeds from the various offerings given at the temple to carpenters and builders for the maintenance of the temple. There was no reckoning made with these workmen because they dealt faithfully.
God does not reward title or position, but faithfulness. It is not how big or how challenging your task is; but how faithful you are in executing it. The workmen who were charged with the task of maintaining the temple were not priests or Levites in the temple. They did not require rocket engineering or a degree from higher institutions of learning to carry out their simple functions. They were commended for utilizing the funds judiciously. This is what God expects from Christians who serve in whatever capacity in government or the private sector; and from believers who do business.
We must account for all the funds and other resources committed into our hands in granular details. We must be patiently faithful, diligently honest and uprightly pursue our businesses and careers without cutting corners, seeking to take advantage of some loopholes in the system. As we are faithful in the little things we do now, God would bless us with enduring riches that will not bring sorrows or heartaches.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Faithfulness in little things brings big breakthroughs from God.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
1 Chronicles 9-11
DCLM Daily Manna Monday 3 June 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