Devotional: Danger of over confidence

DAILY MANNA

WEDNESDAY 16TH DECEMBER, 2020

DANGER OF OVERCONFIDENCE

🔑📖 KEY VERSE: “Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?” (ISAIAH 36:20).

Charles Spurgeon, in one of his exhortations, said: “Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield abundantly; let the weather be propitious to his crops, and skies smile pleasantly upon his enterprise… let uninterrupted success attend him; let him know no sickness; I say the consequence of such a state of a man, will be presumption; and he will say, ‘I stand in my prosperity… I shall never be moved.'”

Rabshakeh, the emissary of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, boasted as if he had won the battle against Jerusalem already. While shouting his message across the walls of the city, he reproached the officers of Israel, the king as well as God before the ordinary people sitting upon the walls. He implored them to offer no resistance to the Assyrian army. This he said to show them the impossibility, as he supposed, of being delivered from the arm of the king of Assyria. He had conquered other nations; even the gods of the nations had been unable to rescue their lands from the Assyrians. He inferred, therefore, that the god of Palestine could not save their land; thus blasphemously setting the Lord God of Israel upon a level with the fictitious gods of the Gentiles.

If you are in such a state, beware! The scripture says, “pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Learn from the eventual destruction of the Assyrian army and put your confidence only in God.

✍🏽 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: God always humiliates the proud.

📜📜THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: HABAKKUK 1-3📜📜

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