DCLM Daily Manna 2 July 2023 — Beyond Our Filthy Rags
DCLM Daily Manna 2 July 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Beyond Our Filthy Rags
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Topic: Beyond Our Filthy Rags
TEXT: Job 25:1-6
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Key Verse: “How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?” (Job 25:4).
Message
As an experienced senator tried to describe the bizarre wonder of the capitol to a new politician, he pointed his attention to an old deteriorating log floating on the river and said, “This city is like that log out there”. “How’s that?,” the fresh politician asked. The senator retorted, “Well, there are probably more than one hundred thousand grubs, ants, bugs and critters on that old log as it floats down the river. And I imagine every one of them thinks that he’s steering it”.
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Bildad, Job’s friend, tried to burst such delusive thinking regarding self-righteousness. Although his message was ignorantly misapplied to Job’s situation, it holds true in life. His argument highlights the supremacy of God’s dominion and the extensiveness of his providence. In particular, he harps on the futility, by any natural man, to justify self before a perfectly holy God, before whose majesty the moon and stars lose their lustre.
Many people still wallow in the misplaced notion that their good works and personal discipline are enough to earn them good standing before God. Nothing can be farther from the truth because man, in his natural state, is depraved (Romans 3:23,12). The psalmist aptly captures this in his saying, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:2). The good works performed by the natural man do not measure up to God’s standard and are regarded by Him as filthy rags.
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It takes the redemptive act of God to qualify us for justification before Him. No one can be justified without placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Only those whose sins have been forgiven on account of personal repentance and faith in Christ are justified before God and righteous before Him.
Thought for the day:
Self-righteousness is delusional and damnable.
Bible in one year
2 KINGS 3 – 4
Deeper Life Daily Manna For Today 2023 was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
