Wasted Destiny

Tuesday 19 June
READ: Daniel 1:1-2
MORE LESSON: Malachi 1:1-2, 6-8

Nebuchadnezzar was one of the kings of Babylon, he was such a powerful king in those days. When the children of God sinned against Him, He allowed them to be captured by Nebuchadnezzar, who was favoured of God. He was a man that was full of abundance; and he was put on the throne by God even though he was a terrible man. The Almighty endowed him without limit; he was a man of power and influence. Though he hated God, God still kept His children under him. He was a man that broke all the laws and privileges of God. He contradicted all the laws of the Almighty yet, the heaven still gave him a long rope. In fact, he was a man so privileged by the Almighty that saints could be put under him. He enjoyed the cover of saints and thought he was under his own cover. He was flattered to think all was well when everything was wrong and had no knowledge or respect for God. Despite all the shortcomings of Nebuchadnezzar, God still endowed him with all the wealth, influence and affluence you can imagine.
One day, Nebuchadnezzar rose up to create a parallel kingdom with the Almighty. He was a man who had an opportunity but abused it. He experienced what an ordinary man should not see because he disrespected the opportunity given him; and God sent him off into the wilderness. When you examine the life of Nebuchadnezzar, you realise that he was a man endowed with the privilege to prevail but he failed. That was not because God didn't like him but because he did not appreciate the place of opportunity. His life became an epitome of a wasted destiny because he allowed pride to enter him. He built an image and made a proclamation that whoever would not bow down to it would die. He exalted himself above God.
A lot of times today men tend to exalt themself above God. Wastage is the end of the proud; no matter how small, destruction is the end of the proud. Run from pride, and give God glory for all He has given you; never forget that all we are and all we have belong to the Almighty God. No man can become anything without God, the Creator and it is in returning the glory to Him that we are kept, sustained and established. If we abuse and misuse our God-given opportunity like Nebuchadnezzar, to think that our own hands have given us all we have, we would lose it to the waster.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that you will not abuse your God-given privileges.
* Pray that you will not live a wasted life due to abuse of opportunity.
* Make a commitment to God that you will not live your life without Him.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER: Every altar competing with my altar of prayer be swallowed up now, in the name of Jesus.