DCLM Daily Manna Wednesday 7 December 2022
TOPIC: Stay At Your Duty Post
KEY VERSE: “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Luke 1:17).
DCLM Daily Manna Wednesday 7 December 2022 OUTLINE
Martin Luther said, “If we consider the greatness and the glory of the life we shall have when we have risen from the dead, it would not be difficult at all for us to bear the concerns of this world…”
Despite his advanced age and the challenge of being childless while he and his old wife, Elisabeth, served the Lord as a “righteous” and “blameless” couple, Zacharias the priest was still at his duty post in the temple. He left the matter of barrenness at home as he had always done and “executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course.” The passage under review reveals how the Lord rewarded their faithfulness.
- Open Heaven Daily Devotional – The Ministry of Angels (II)
- MFM Daily Devotional 7 December 2022 – Say No To Backsliding (IV)
God visited the old man with gladdening news while he was attending to his work, not while grieving over his lack of children or planning to send Elisabeth packing in order to bring another woman who would have the fruit of the womb. To attract heaven’s attention concerning what they were passing through, Zacharias and Elisabeth remained unmoved in God’s service, until the Lord sent His angel to tell him, “thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son.”
Answer to prayers over our troubles does come when we are neck-deep in the work the Lord assigns to us. He expects us to work and resist the temptation to bring in our carnal emotions into His work. This means staying with the Lord always despite seeming setbacks, embarrassments, losses, and ridicule. At the end of the day, these would all amount to nothing compared to the spiritual and physical rewards the believer receives from God.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God does not forget those who stay true to Him.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Isaiah 22-25
