DLCM DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL
END-TIME CHRISTIANITY
18TH , JUNE 2022
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Thessalonians 1-5
TEXT: Ezekiel 16:44-52
44 “Indeed everyone who
quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you:
‘Like mother, like daughter!’
45 You are your
mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who
loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 “Your elder
sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters
to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of
you, is Sodom and her
daughters.
47 You did not walk in
their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your
ways.
48 “As I
live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her
daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
49 Look, this was the
iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of
food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the
poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty
and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away
as [b]I saw fit.
51 “Samaria did not
commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more
than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which
you have done.
52 You who judged your
sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were
more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be
disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
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KEY VERSE:
“Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins;
but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified
thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done." - Ezekiel 16:51
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Sodom had no Bible, but we do; no excuse not to be
different!
THE MESSAGE:
Technology has made a lot of impact in the life of modern man.
Gone are the days when people walk from one town to the other to transact
business. Now, they ride or fly to move around. Intercontinental trips used to
take weeks and months. These days one can traverse continents in hours.
Technology has made things easy, but has also created more avenues for man to
invent and practise more evil.
Prophet Ezekiel, in our text, shows Jerusalem her abominations,
by comparing her with well-known bad places. This means that she was worse than
any of them, and therefore should, like them, be utterly and irreparably
ruined. He calls her a bad mother and one who, compared to her sisters, Samaria
and Sodom, was worse off.
The church today is like Jerusalem that has lost her glory.
Whenever Sodom is mentioned, one thinks of immorality and sexual perversion.
Even Ezekiel accused her of abundance of idleness and pride. These and more are
attributes that one sees in the church today. The advancement of technology has
introduced new dimensions of ease making some assemblies to spend more time on
"prosperity issues" than on evangelism.
Born again believers must not emulate the practices and systems
of the world. Instead, we should always examine our lives to know if we are
still on the path that leads to heaven. We must be different because true
Christianity abhors corruption and evil. As believers, our light and life
should shine forth the transforming power of the glorious gospel.
DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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