DCLM Daily Manna 30th August 2020 [Sunday] – Vanity Censored!

 

Topic: “Vanity Censored!” By Pastor W. F. Kumuyi

DCLM Daily Manna Key Verse: Psalms 119:37 (NIV)

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.

Today’s DCLM Daily Manna Bible Reading: Psalm 119:33-40 (NIV)

33 Teach me, LORD, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. 34 Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. 35 Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. 38 Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared. 39 Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. 40 How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

DCLM DAILY MANNA FOR TODAY 30TH AUGUST 2020 – VANITY CENSORED!

The eyes have remained very important in human life. Just as the organ plays an important role of seeing; it has however, constituted a serious impediment to many people in their journey to heaven.

A lot of sins have been committed and lives lost as a result of wrong use of the eyes. In our passage today, King David, having been bitten by the scourge of sinful “seeing,” cried unto God, among other things, to turn “away his eyes from beholding vanity.”

There are lots of vanities all over the place. One does not need to go far before seeing them. They are even in places where they should not be. The believer is in a constant battle between right and wrong. These vanities are running after believers and presenting themselves at every turn. But David knew that “all that glitters is not gold.”

The psalmist sought to know God through obedience to His will. He realised that he could do this only by keeping his mind off the things of this world and keeping it on the testimonies of God. By doing this, the insults will be ignored in his life when he no longer considered obedience to God a thing of which to be ashamed.

Surrendering to and serving God in totality will always bring relief. Making a public show of our stand in God gives relief from worldly encumbrances. Believers are reminded today that nothing else matters but a life lived for Christ; a songwriter says, “Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

That was David’s wish; and that should be the wish of every genuine child of God. However, this cannot be possible except our eyes are turned from beholding vanity on a regular basis.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Those who see through the eyes of Christ always reach their destination.

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Psalm 61-67

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.