LIVING STREAMS DEVOTIONAL
By Pst. Ezekiel Atang
MARCH 2025
WHY WERE YOU BORN?
(John 18:37 KJV)
Sunday 16th March
YOU DO NOT HAVE ALL DAY
(Deuteronomy 31:1-2 NIV).
“Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.”
I believe that the best mentality that anyone can have about life is the mentality of time consciousness. To live life without a consciousness of time is like putting your life in a pause mode. Because it is the knowledge and sensitivity to time that makes us work as hard as we do many times.
Solomon rightly stated that there is time for everything. There is the time to wake up from sleep, and there is the time to go to work. Imagine that your clock stopped and you were deceived to believe it was telling you the correct time??? too many things will pass you by without your knowing it. If it stopped at 2am you will elongate your sleeping time without knowing it. Thus putting your life in a pause mode, and by the time you get to know the real time, too many things would have passed you by.
So it is with the fulfillment of your destiny. Moses made a very strong statement in relation to his age – He said: “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you”.
So, even though he had a destiny of leading God’s people, his age put a barrier on his leadership destiny. Your age decides your abilities in many instances. I was one of those who believed that Moses had the strength and capacity to continue his work, since his eyes were not dim and his natural force not abated, (Deuteronomy 34:7). But I have reviewed that stand because of this statement of Moses.
You may still be strong but not able to lead anymore. You may be living and yet not be able to carry out certain functions anymore. That was why David said in Psalm 92:12 “teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom”. You are as wise as your ability to be time sensitive. You do not have all day, you do not have all the time to play around and make all the mistakes in the world before you face your assignment in life. Each second, minute or hour that passes by idle, constitutes a massive shortage of time that you have left to fulfill your destiny.
You do not have all day, please go to work immediately.
Action Points/Prayer
i. Ask God to make you very time sensitive.
ii. Ask the Lord to fill you with the wisdom of knowing what to do with your life per time.
iii. Ask God to remove everything in and around your life that can cause waste of time and life.
Nugget
Each second, minute or hour that passes by idle, constitutes a massive shortage of time that you have left to fulfill your destiny.
For Further Reading and Meditation
MORNING
Nahum 2; Revelations 9
EVENING
Psalms 124
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