TODAY’S DEVOTION (WEDNESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2024)
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Genesis 2:18 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 262ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF IMPACT.
God be glorified for giving us another day.
Today we will be looking at matters of relationship. Except for a season, if God says it’s not good to be alone, you will be foolish to say it’s good to be alone in life. No matter how anointed, prayerful or close to God you are, it is not still good to be alone.
In fact, the Bible teaches that, if you are truly anointed, prayerful or close to God, He will fill your life with people that need you and the ones you need. You will never be alone in life.
It is important to note that, faith and Obedience are the currencies of the Spirit, but relationship with God given people, is the currency of the earth. Yes, it is the purchasing power of every good and significant thing from Heaven on earth, especially things that money cannot buy.
You may not have money, but if you have God given people, especially men and women who truly love and care for you, friend, you are rich.
After having a good pastor over your life as a child of God, the next most important thing to ask the LORD to give you in life is people. Yes, people He has designed that you meet to become all He created you to be in life.
The greatest blessing you can have on earth is GOD surrounding you with people who genuinely care for you and yours. That is why a good family is one of the greatest blessings one can have on earth.
But the fall-down-and-die gospel has helped the devil in destroying many families. A teaching brought into the body of Christ by preachers whose parents were witch doctors, men and women who served the enemy killing deities of African religion.
God want us to lead lives that apply hearts unto wisdom. He wants us to get our hearts filled with His wisdom. He wants us to walk in the wisdom of not being alone in life.
God never designed a man to be alone. You may not need bad people but do not say you do not need people.
I have repeatedly stated that everyone needs God given people to become a person. Yes, you need people Heaven designed from the foundation of the world, to become part of your life, in order to become a person Heaven designed you to be from the foundation of the world.
If you do not know that and run your life with it, you will cut off every flow of good that God intent bringing to you. God use men to bless men! Our devotional text today said; “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
THIS WISDOM WAS WHAT LED TO THE CREATION OF MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS.
But life has made it clear that one can be married and still be alone. If you get married to a death partner instead of a life partner, you will still be alone. So when we say we need people to become a person we are not referring to everyone on the street.
However, marital relationships are just one relationship type, there are other types! When the Bible says it’s not good that man should be alone, it cuts across all relationship types.
Basically, a Child of God needs three types of human relationships to succeed in God’s plans and purposes for his life. He will need;
(1) People who are ahead of him, or called it those who are superior to him. He will need them as an inspiration, model, or standard. Basically, he will need someone who has already arrived at where God is taking him to, to be accountable to.
(2) He will need people at his level or his colleagues, to provide the relationship warmth he needs, and some form of success life support. David had this in Jonathan, who was a great success life support for him.
(3) He will need people beneath him to spend his days ministering to, people who need whatever gift the LORD might have given him, to become what God wants them to be. He will need people he can raise from where they are to where he is. This kind of relationship has a way of becoming a fertility for the release of his own destiny in Christ.
The beautiful thing is this; God has a way of bringing these classes of relationships our way. However, if we are not humble and submissive, we will miss the blessing of relating with them.
YOU MUST THEREFORE, DEVELOP THE RIGHT ATTITUDES TO HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE.
For instance, on having persons who are far ahead of you in life, or superiors in your life, you must understand that you need to be humble. People who are ahead of you will keep you away from their space if you are not humble and submissive.
On having people at your level for success life pillars, if you are too independent minded, you will despise those at your level and miss their blessings. On having people who are yet to get to where you are in your life, if you are dangerously proud, you will have nothing to do with anyone who is beneath you.
Without the right attitudes, you will always be alone in life!! The life of a man was not designed to be lived alone. That is why you will never achieve much in life if you are alone.
Like I said earlier, God use men to raise men. He uses men to provide for, protect, establish, bless, build or visit men. He uses men to make men great in life. So, if you are lone in life, you have cut yourself off from so many things that He would have done in your life.
If you are the Christian type that suspects everybody, despise those beneath you, disrespect those ahead of you, and do not have anything to do with anyone, your life will be small, and maybe miserable. You will miss great visitations from God.
After having a good pastor over your life, you will need great relationships to actualize God’s plans for your life. You may see wisdom in being suspicious of people, but suspicion is the lowest level of discernment. It is an act of foolishness in God’s sight.
It may have helped you in some cases but it does not work all the time.
God wants us to walk in spiritual discernment, not suspicion. Discernment is an act of divine wisdom but suspicion is not. Many missed the blessings God gave me for them when I first came to Kenya because of suspicion – they suspected me of being dangerous when they discovered I am a Nigerian. It got me so sick and tired of trying to help people.
Suspicion will rob you of the blessings God want to give you through blessed people. But spiritual discernment will help you find them.
WALK IN SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT, IT IS ONE WAY WE WALK IN DIVINE WISDOM.
It will save you from devils because, the way God use men to visit men, so do Satan use men to destroy men. But spiritual discernment (and not suspicion) will help you find them out.
Suspicion is not discernment. It is the flesh’s way of determining between good and evil. It will destroy your chance to have God given people in your life.
Most good people that God will send into our lives to establish, help, prosper, build or bless us, will not come in very great packages.
They come in packages we will never like – packages that will require a walk and talk with God to unravel. So, we must walk in spiritual discernment towards all relations God bring our way not suspicion.
Most times, blessed people come in ways that it is difficult to trust them. In fact, some stir suspicion by their actions. But if you bypass your flesh and walk in spiritual discernment, you will see into their hearts and know they are genuine and God sent.
I want to state that no matter what you think about people, and no matter what may have happened to you, it is not good for you to be alone. You need people in your life!
In fact, you even need some enemies, yes you need them so that you can be propelled into God’s desired place for your life. Life is built in such a way that if friends and foes do not touch us one way or the other, we will never become what Heaven created us to be!
David needed a Goliath to become famous and enter into His destiny. You will need some Goliath in life as well!
We must therefore be aware of Satan’s strategy. He will seek to make us hateful towards foes that are assets in our lives, foes that will force God to make a table for us in their presence because of what they might be doing against us.
If that did not work, he will seek to separate us from caring people by painting them in an evil way in our minds. He does that each time he wants to kill steal or destroy. That has been his age long strategy.
For instance, it was when Eve was separated from Adam that he got her. If she was where her husband was, perhaps there would have been no fall of man. Really it is not good for a man to be alone!
May the LORD use these words to keep guiding our ways. Amen!!!
MAY THE SCRIPTURE BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR YOU TODAY!
“A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.” Psalms 68:5-6 NKJV