Open Heaven 17 September 2024 Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor E. A. Adeboye

TOPIC: Frail In God’s Hands [17 September, 2024] 

  MEMORISE: “My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.” – Psalm 38:10 (KJV)

  READ: Psalm 39:4-7 (KJV) 

 4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. 

 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 

 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 

 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 

  BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Amos 1-4 

MESSAGE:

In today’s Bible text, David asked God to make him know how frail he really was. This was a man who witnessed how his highly-exalted king, King Saul, suddenly started acting like a mad man on several occasions and needed music from a harp to calm him down (1 Samuel 16:23). This was a man who used an ordinary stone to bring down a giant that had terrorised his country for 40 days and nights (1 Samuel 17). As humans, we have the tendency to believe that we are strong and that we are in control, whereas, God is the One that upholds us (Isaiah 41:8-10).

 In Daniel 4:30, Nebuchadnezzar was boasting of his really great achievements, but within that same hour, he was on all fours, eating grass with the beasts of the field (Daniel 4:31-33). He was indeed a great king, but God humbled him in an instant. No matter how great and powerful a fellow is, God can humble him or her in the twinkling of an eye. King Herod thought that he was powerful and could capture and kill whoever he wanted to (Mark 6:16-17), but right in front of his people, he was eaten up by ordinary maggots (Acts 12:23). 

When God wants to show that He is in control, He can use ants to bring down an elephant. This is why you will always see me being humble, kneeling to worship God in public, and surrendering my all to Him. I know what I am doing because I know that without Him, I am nothing. I know that no matter how powerful people think I am, God can break me like a toothpick if I offend Him. Beloved, always live conscious of your frailty in God’s hands; don’t ever think you are in control. Keep it at the back of your mind at all times that God is in control. 

The producers of a popular television show in Nigeria would always say that we are nothing but pencils in the hand of the Creator. If you think you are better than everyone else, know that you are just a pencil in God’s hands, and He can do with you as He pleases. Like David, ask God to always remind you of how frail you are in His hands. 

  PRAYER POINT: Father, please let me never forget how weak and helpless I am in your hands. 

  Open Heavens 2024 Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.