31/08/2025
*š«OUR SUNDAY MORNING DEVOTION!*
*WHAT YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED IS NOT YOUR RIGHT*
It is only those with an empty stomach who truly know the value of food. Only those who have never married understand the importance of a husband. Only an orphan fully knows the pain of not having parents.
There are so many things in life that we take for granted. It feels as if itās our right to have them.
If you knew the cost of a single soul in the hospital, surely you would not take for granted the free gift of life that God has given in abundance. The one in a wheelchair is the only one who truly knows the value of legs. They wish they could walkāeven to receive a scolding from their motherābut your own legs you use to run around spreading gossip, committing adultery, murder, and doing meaningless things.
Ask us who never once received even a pair of socks from our father, and we will tell you the deep pain of lacking. Ask us who slept hungry because of poverty, and we will tell you the goodness of the Lord. Ask those who never saw the face of their mother or father, and they will explain the depth of that pain.
It seems easy, even normal, when itās not your situation. But let me tell you, my brothers and sistersāit is GRACE to have parents, GRACE to have health, GRACE to be alive. It is not a national right to have family, children, a wife, or a husband. These are Godās mercies, not your ability or strength.
Ask the one without a child and they will tell you that children are not a choice but Godās grace and favor. Yet others abort pregnancies, throw away children, or neglect them. Ask the one with cancer, high blood pressure, or HIV, and they will tell you what health really means. Then you will know that health is not found in having a specialist doctor but in the grace of the Ancient of Days.
In our human thinking, we only realize the value of something once itās gone. You despise your parents while you live comfortably in Johannesburg for ten years, eating lavishly, while they survive on wild fruits and dried vegetables, looking as if life has squeezed them dry. You abuse your husband as if the whole world belongs to you and marriages never end. You abandon your children and they grow up like weeds while you chase after your own pleasures. You beat your wife as if women will one day run outāyet others are even waiting to marry!
Oh! And what about salvation, which we boast in as if we have the keys to heaven? When the trumpet sounds, then you will see that free gifts are costly. Shine on proudly as you gain fame for insulting others on social media, creating ghost accounts just to spread hate as if you own time itself. But one day, you will reap what you sow. A time will comeāGod is neither your friend nor your drinking buddy. Time is not oursā¦ one day you will surely harvest.
Know the time, my brothers and sistersā¦ know the time, for time is not ours. Why donāt you repent, my brother, my sister?
Good morning, my beloved brothers and sisters. Have a blessed Sunday šš½
