Devotional: Don’t hit the bottom
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DAILY MANNA
SATURDAY 30TH JANUARY, 2021
DON’T HIT THE BOTTOM
📜📜TEXT: ISAIAH 6:9-13📜📜
🔑📖 KEY VERSE: “And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not” (ISAIAH 6:9).
The world is fast slipping into moral blindness and insensitivity. People are becoming so adjusted to evil and error that they have lost the ability to perceive and understand the truth. We are seeing vast reversal of norms. Things that were once condemned as wrong and abominable are now being celebrated as the ideal while once cherished values and practices are now condemned and jeered at. It has even reached the point where the attempt to point out these deviations and set things right is strongly resisted and termed as being discriminatory and hateful. The world is hitting the bottom of morality.
As Prophet Isaiah received the commission to preach to the nation of Israel, God painted the picture of the people he would be reaching out to. They were people who had become completely insensitive to the righteous demands of God. They had committed sins and rebelled against Him repeatedly that it had become normal for them. The Lord made Isaiah to understand that the people would resist his message and fail to see the truth. But Isaiah was mandated to continue to prophesy the truth as a remnant would be saved.
We must be careful that we do not come to the point where we become insensitive to the word of God. The Lord does not harden anyone’s heart or blind anyone to the truth; rather, people find themselves in that condition because they choose to be spiritually blind through a deliberate and consistent rejection of the truth. They have hit the bottom spiritually and morally.
We must keep preaching the truth even when it appears that people are not willing to listen. We must not change with the people or be forced to abandon the truth. Though the majority may not hear, there will still be a remnant that will hear, repent and be saved. Do not be dragged to the bottom; stand firm and strong in resisting error.
✍🏽 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Resisting the truth is perilous!
📜📜THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: MATTHEW 4-5📜📜
