DCLM Daily Manna Sunday 9 June 2024, Daily Devotional Message Written By Pastor W.F Kumuyi
TOPIC: The Brave And The Broken
KEY VERSE: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me” (Isaiah 6:8).
TEXT: ISAIAH 6:1-8 (NIV)
6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
DCLM Daily Manna Sunday 9 June 2024 – MESSAGE
Great militaries select their elite forces from among the toughest and bravest of men. Candidates for the U.S. Navy SEAL program, for example, are taken through ‘Hell Week’, five-and-half days of gruelling tests of physical endurance, mental toughness, teamwork, attitude, physical/ mental stress and sleep deprivation. On average, only one in four candidates make it through and go on to graduate.
God’s ways are far higher than men’s ways, however. When He chooses His elite forces, He looks not for the brave but for the broken. Prophet Isaiah was a good candidate. He had been prophesying prior to his epic encounter in today’s passage. When he came face to face with the Almighty in His glorious majesty, he suddenly realised his own imperfection. Although he cried, “Woe is me! for I am undone,” God replied with an answer of peace. The lively coal from His altar was for the prophet’s sanctification: “thy sin is purged.”
The experience of sanctification is essential for those who would bear God’s message to a corrupt world. Furthermore, standing in God’s awesome presence opened Isaiah’s eyes to the sinful condition of the “people of unclean lips” among whom he dwelt. That revelation qualified him to bear God’s message of repentance to them.
No one could gain real self-awareness of his spiritual state until he came into the immediate presence of the thrice-holy God.
You may secretly flatter yourself on your elevated spirituality until the day God shines in your heart “to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”. When that day arrives, you will see yourself, warts and all. Pray for this glorious experience to be fit for service in God’s special squad.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: With God, brokenness is a plus, not a minus.
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DCLM Daily Manna Sunday 9 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