DCLM Sincere Milk 23 January 2024 — God’s Counsel To Children
DCLM Sincere Milk 23 January 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — God’s Counsel To Children
Topic: God’s Counsel To Children
Text: Ezekiel 20:18-21
18But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
20And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Key Verse: “But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.” Ezekiel 20:18
Message
Many matters in life are very personal. A man goes to the university and obtained many degrees such as B.Sc, M.Sc, and Phd. None of this man’s children can use any of these certificates; either when the man is still living or after his death. Children cannot inherit their father’s certificate. The same happens in the spiritual; no child can inherit his father’s or mother’s salvation. The salvation of father or mother cannot deliver any of his/her children; in the same way, no child will be condemned to hell because of the sins of his/her parents. Each person stands alone before God.
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God’s counsel to you as a child is, “I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;” (Ezekiel 20:19) Obedience to this counsel brings peace of mind, divine favour, protection, promotion, happiness and a blessed future to a child. Children like Joseph, Daniel, Esther, Timothy and others who walked by this counsel of God were successful and are now in heaven. To be able to walk in God’s counsel, you must be born again. When you are truly born again, you will have a new heart and a new spirit. You will also have the power to obey God and please Him. Then you will have the assurance of getting to heaven.
Further Reading: Deuteronomy 27:9,10
Prayer for today: Lord, give me the power to obey Your word. Make me a good child like Samuel.
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)
