DCLM Daily Manna, Wednesday March 25, 2015 by Pastor Kumuyi - No Help Elsewhere

Topic: No Help Elsewhere [Wednesday March 25, 2015]

Text: Psalm 5:8-12

Key Verse: “But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee” (Psalm 5:11).

When a woman came out of the concentration camp in Germany where she experienced some unimaginable acts of wickedness after the Second World War, she concluded: “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within (yourself), you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.”

It has been so in all history: man has faltered in error and sin as he rebels against God’s laws and inflicts havoc on nature and fellow human beings. Man has broken away from his Creator and he is now trapped in his own destructive snare, for according to the psalmist, “There is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue” (verse 9).

But man can escape the danger that this route of perdition leads to. He can go the way of King David in verse 8 by asking the Lord to lead him in His righteousness. If he surrenders to the Lord, he will no longer trust himself and the world. He will not idolise the system of this perishing world. For answers to the challenges of life and the pressures beckoning him to sin, he will look up to Jesus the Author and Finisher of the believer’s faith. When he has Christ, he will not follow the multitude to sin.

This is the only way for man to receive God’s mercy. In this age of uncertainties thrown up by different shades of apostasy and godlessness, the wise person would watch his ways and keep his steps from the world and look up to God and His laws only.

Bible in One Year: Mark 7-10

Thought for The Day: Help outside God is passport to perdition.

DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.