The Gain of Loss

Daily Scripture Threshing for Monday, May 4 2020

Today’s Text: Isaiah 6:1-13

Key Verse: Isaiah 6:1 (ESV): In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.”

Uzziah, the tenth king of Judah, Amaziah's son. who was 16 when he became king, and reigned for 52 years was such a godly hope to Prophet Isaiah so much that his death jolted him into mourning in the temple. O how God sometimes puts out our little light that we may see Him the better. Stars are always there but we see their beauty more clearly at night.

That is what God does sometimes when he lets things force us to slowdown. If we fail to slowdown, then he forces us to lockdown. He has to put out our false lights in order that we may see His eternal light. Various false theories exist about Uzziah but he did not truly represent evil. He was godly, but he had to die, in order that we may see that it is God who lives, and that it is by Him we truly have hope. Man is not our hope, God is. If and when we go through such loss, then it is gain. In Matthew 16:25, Jesus warns his disciples that self seeking is self loosing.

Quote for the Day: "Whereas we are not called to a life of self abandonment; but to that of self denial and surrender.” (Simon Olatunji)

Prayer: Dear Lord, teach me the benefits of self surrender — the evidence of a life lost in your grace and found by eternal love, in Jesus name. Amen.

With all my love and prayer,

Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD

The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),

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