Fresh Manna 14 May
MEDITATION SCRIPTURE: “And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtarot,” (Judg.2:13)
READ: JUDGES 2:11-15
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
Nature abhors vacuum. It’s either you are full or you are empty. If you are not strong you must be weak. Israel’s careless association with the Heathen nations soon produced fruits of idolatry and deviation from God’s plan.
They failed woefully into apostasy and joined themselves to the people they are supposed to destroy. Forsaking the Lord did not begin from the day they bowed down to Baal and Asharot. It began on the very day they chose to compromise their stand, by allowing the Heathen nation to serve them and pay tributes instead of total examination, as was commanded by God.
This was the same problem that King Solomon had. The moment his Kingdom was established, he sought alliance with all the great Kings of his time by getting by getting married to their daughters. He did this to secure his physical boundaries and maintain political peace. He never knew he was breaking down spiritual walls and kindling a strange fire that will burn the generations after him (1 KNG.11:1-13).
The scripture record, “for it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God…” IKgs.11:4). To think that Solomon the wisest King fell to idolatry is ridiculous, that is how dangerous compromise can be.
The church must return to her place of rightly dividing the Word of Truth, unless we want to raise generations of idol worshippers.
TURNING POINT: The church must return to her place of rightly dividing the Word of Truth, unless we want to raise generations of idol worshippers.
PRAYER POINT: Lord, deliver our generation from idolatry.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1KNG.21,21; JN.3:1-21
Thank you for studying today’s Fresh Manna (The Christian Pentecostal Mission International Daily Devotional) – Another Generation (2) – written by REV. DR. O. EZEKIEL & REV. DR. M. EZEKIEL
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Fresh Manna 14 May 2021
