DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 27 June 2025: Immune to Sin
Text: Psalm 119:1-8 (KJV)
Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of the Lord!
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart!
3 They also do no iniquity;
They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded us
To keep Your precepts diligently.
5 Oh, that my ways were directed
To keep Your statutes!
6 Then I would not be ashamed,
When I look into all Your commandments.
7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your righteous judgments.
8 I will keep Your statutes;
Oh, do not forsake me utterly!
KEY VERSE: “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.” – (Psalm 119:1).
Smallpox was once a devastating disease that caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The story of its eradication is one of the greatest triumphs in medical history. Edward Jenner’s development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 marked the beginning of the end of the disease. Jenner discovered that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox, a less severe disease, did not get smallpox. He used material from cowpox sores to create immunity to smallpox, leading to the development of the first vaccine. Through a concerted global vaccination campaign led by the World Health Organization (WHO), smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980.
In our passage, the psalmist also reveals that the only vaccine against sin is to “walk in the law of the LORD” (Psalm 119:1). He further said, “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word” (Psalm 119:9). The law of the Lord is the word of God. Jesus is “the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God which was “made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1,14). His blood shed at Calvary was required for the redemption of humanity (Hebrews 9:22). He saves by His word, which must be retained in our souls, acting like a vaccine against spiritual corruption.
Similarly, just like smallpox, which was killing people around the world, having no cure, sin also had no human cure, enslaving and killing people eternally. This situation prevailed globally until about two thousand years ago, when God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die on behalf of the entire human race. Having died our death, Jesus now offers us His life, eternal life, which is accessible to all comers through His word; for, “…as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12).
So, to be saved, you would need to surrender to God’s word by receiving and retaining Jesus in your heart. This makes one to be immunised against defilement such that one would be “undefiled in the way” and “do no iniquity” until one successfully enters eternal rest in heaven.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God’s word, like a vaccine, protects from sin.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
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Daily Manna 27 June 2025
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