TODAY’S DEVOTION (Saturday 21st June 2025)
“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear.” 2 Corinthians 7:1 Darby Translation
WELCOME TO THE 172ND DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
In our devotional today we will be highlighting some truths on spiritual pollution. I shared about this sometimes back and felt it should be repeated today.
Child of God, there are spiritual toxic waste that can kill holiness and God’s power in our lives. There are spiritually poisonous things that can leave us vulnerable to devils that parade into OUR spirit realm. They can suspend divine favor for a season and transmit sinful tendencies into the lives of those walking in the flesh.
They have what it takes to contaminate someone’s faith or passion for God and activate his or her flesh to awake to sinfulness. These things are poisonous to our divine destiny that is why at the root of every devastating attack on a destiny man or woman is a spiritual pollution.
Let us take David for an example; before he ever committed adultery, he was polluted spiritually by what he saw. The essence of spiritual pollution is actually to bring a child of God into the realm of walking in the flesh. David was brought to that level.
The Bible says he looked at a woman that was bathing from the top of his palace and saw her nakedness and something was transmitted into him, and before you could pronounce the word J-e-r-u-s-a-l-e-m, he had gotten the woman pregnant and killed her husband to cover up. The rest as they say is history.
Today He remains a standard for us to learn from when it comes to these things. His life teaches that spiritual pollution is something that enters the heart of the righteous and begins to sway them to do things they would not have done ordinarily. It is something we must all watch against.
WE MUST ALL UNDERSTAND THAT SPIRITUAL POLLUTION IS THE DRIVING FORCE OF EVERY SINFUL ACT.
The Bible says:
“To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread; and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life. Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?” Proverbs 6:24-27 NKJV
King David was severely burnt by his sin. But it all began when he looked lustfully at a naked woman and was spiritually polluted. The ancient saint Job was wiser. He said, “I have made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a maid.” He shut the windows of his heart, which is the eyes, the very sexual pollutant that took David from the housetop to his bedroom with another man’s wife.
Spiritual pollution has a way of quickening or arousing our sinful nature to do the sinful, the ungodly or the evil. It has a way of awakening us to sinfulness, especially in committing sexual sins.
The Bible teaches us to live lives that are awake to righteousness. But that is not possible when the flesh is awake to the sin that lives in us or those around us.
To be awake simply means to be alive or active.
The reason many of us struggle with sinful habits is because our flesh is active towards sin. When the flesh is dead or inactive towards sin, we will never struggle with sinful habits. We will never live in sin. That is why men like Paul will tell you “For if I build again those things which I destroyed; I make myself a transgressor” (Galatians 2:18 NKJV).
When one gives his or her life to Christ, the Holy Spirit will begin to lead them to destroy all sinful habits and paradigms. But sometimes we go back to rebuild them, and one way one we do that is by exposing ourselves to spiritual pollutants.
IF WE GO BACK TO REBUILD WHAT OUR SALVATION AND SANCTIFICATION BROKE, WE MAKE OURSELVES’ TRANSGRESSORS.
Understand that there is no way you will not live a life of sin, iniquity or transgression if you expose yourself to things that will make it happen, or if you live in the place where that happens. Sadly, the spiritual pollution in the world today seems to be worse than the ones in previous generations. Technology has multiplied and made them so close to us.
We now sit with them, sleep with them, and keep them closer to us than ever before. For many their phones have become their gate to hell. So many now carry electronics that are simply weapons of Holiness destruction (WHD) in the hands of the enemy.
When we open our face book pages, there are chances that we will see some obscene images or read some words that quicken the flesh to sin. Many are hooked up to pornography by the power of YouTube. It is really getting messier down here. Divine destinies are at stake.
People now go to hell at a faster rate than before. As soon as Children are born, hell bound parents will register them for eternal damnation immediately using their smart phones. That is why sometimes I pray that the LORD suspends everything and comes now to take us home. But how can He take us home that fast when His redemptive plans are yet to be completed.
There must be another way for the redeemed to be saved from these things while we wait, and that way is the way of living the crucified life by dying daily, like Paul did and not getting polluted like David was. Paul wrote saying:
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 NKJV
Sadly, messages on the crucified life no longer exist in the Church today. No book on it is on our shelves. We are full of books on deliverance, financial prosperity and making our marriages work but no book on living the Crucified life.
WE FORGET THAT JESUS’ PRESCRIPTION FOR A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS LIFE IS NOT A DELIVERANCE OR PROSPERITY BOOK BUT A CRUCIFIED LIFE.
A crucified life generates so much power that devils cannot come a hundred meters close. It is full of freedom, faith, and the consuming glory of God. It knows no poverty or lack. It is beyond curses and satanic attacks.
A Crucified life does not expose its heart to spiritual pollutants. It is dead to sin and the satanic. It does not sit before what does not edify. It is confined to deep intimacy with Jesus and dies daily to sin and all forms of carnal cravings. It does not fix its eyes on pornographic pictures or watch movies that activate sexual feelings.
Fasting, to a Crucified life, is a tool for serving God. It is an instrument of worship, and he uses it very well to keep himself spiritually planted on the mountains of God’s holiness. No one who led a crucified life ever failed in life.
They all unleashed their divine destiny. It is the key to running the race that is set before us well and finishing it strong.
If you look at Bible or church history, you will discover that everyone who fulfilled divine destiny accurately embraced the Crucified life. But everyone who did not rejected the Crucified life.
For instance, Samson would not have been on the laps of Delilah if he had led the Crucified life. The brethren who brought in damnable heresies in the early Church would not have done so if they had embraced the Crucified life.
If you want to know how to live the Crucified life, study the life of Paul the apostle. He was the pioneer of the crucified life in the post resurrection Church. Even Peter had to learn from him. In fact, the Bible made it clear that Jesus raised and fashioned him for us to have him as a pattern of the Christian life; that was after the 12 had slipped into Judaism.
THE BIBLE SAYS, “GLORIOUS THINGS ARE SPOKEN CONCERNING YOU, O CITY OF GOD.”
You are that City of God on the face of the earth. In other words, your divine destiny is pregnant with precious promises that are designed to be fulfilled in your life during your stay on this side of eternity. Some may have been revealed to you. That is why our devotional text today is saying to us;
“Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God’s fear.”.
That means the fulfillment of the precious promises that our divine destiny is pregnant with is conditioned on us perfecting holiness in the fear of God by purifying ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit
Are you ready to unleash your divine destiny? If the answer is yes, then make this devotional your meditation. Decide to lead a Christian life that is separated from spiritual pollutions. And the only way to do that is to live the Crucified life that Jesus used Paul to fashion out for us.
You will not fail in Jesus name! Amen and amen!!!
THIS SCRIPTURE CAN BE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR THE DAY:
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. Matthew 16:24-27 NKJV
