DCLM Daily Manna 17th August 2021 Devotional – It Takes Grace; written by Pastor W.F Kumuyi
DCLM DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL FOR 17TH AUGUST 2021
TOPIC: IT TAKES GRACE
TEXT: Exodus 23:1-13
KEY VERSE: “If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.” – (Exodus 23:4)
DCLM Daily Manna 17th August 2021 Devotional Message:
One of the Anabaptists who died during the sixteenth century persecution was Dirk Willems. Dirk was captured and imprisoned in his hometown of Asperen in the Netherlands. Knowing that his fate would be death if he remained in prison, Dirk made an escape, and a guard chased him. Frost had covered a nearby pond with a thin layer of ice. Dirk risked a dash across it. He made it to safety but the ice broke under his pursuer who cried for help. Dirk believed the Scriptures that a man should help his enemies. He immediately turned back and pulled him out of the frigid water, only to be arrested by the same guard, condemned and burnt to death on May 16, 1569.
Daily Manna August 17, 2021 Devotional
Similarly, the passage under consideration presents a catalogue of actions that fits into the new life and the righteous requirements of truly converted saints. One of those commands required God’s people to help rescue the livestock of their enemies and avoid oppressing and taking advantage of the poor and the strangers. The same command was given through Christ’s sermon on the Mount on the need to pray for those who hate and persecute us (Matthew 5:43-48).
Clearly, it will be difficult to obey these laws without a corresponding deep change within. The unregenerate man is carnal, selfish, self-centred and sinful. After the experience of salvation, we need to proceed to have the experience of sanctification or holiness which removes the adamic nature or the root of sin and circumcise our hearts to love the Lord and our fellow men.
The new prayer genre of ‘the enemies must die by fire’ does not enjoy the support of Scriptures. God wants His people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of salvation (1 Timothy 2:3,4). When grace comes into our lives, it produces the fruit of love, peace, joy, longsuffering, sobriety, justice and mercy.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: True grace makes you pray for your enemies.
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