Today’s Devotion
Topic : God Will Send You Ebed- Melech!
Text: Jeremiah 38: 4- 10
4 Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.” 5 “He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you.”
6 So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
7 But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
8 Ebed-Melek went out of the palace and said to him,
9 “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.”
10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.” Amen
Oh the wickedness of men! They hated Jeremiah for every truth he preached and stood for. Just as happened to Daniel, they found a legal and logical way to frame him up to the king and make it seem like he was an enemy of the state.
They told King Zedekiah that Jeremiah the prophet was discouraging the soldiers and all Isreal with an agenda to ruin Isreal. And as you know, no leader will tolerate such a treacherous activity. King Zedekiah told his officials that the prophet was in their hands.
But people of God, what they didn’t tell the king was the wickedness they had planned against the old man. They arrested him and lowered him into a well/ cistern that was full of mud, and left him there to rot. However, God wouldn’t let that happen. He brought Eben-Melech to intervene on Jeremiah’s behalf. Eben-Melech approached the king and explained the terrible thing done to Jeremiah. It was he who secured the permit to rescue the man of God from the miry clay.
Dearly Beloved, when it seems your adversaries have won the day because they found ways to use the existing structures in society to bring you very low, leaving you with no hope to rise again, don’t faint. Just pray to God to send you an advocate. Someone you may not even know whose word matter to the king. At that board meeting, court of justice, family gathering, Bishop’s conference or embassy, God will touch an “Eben-Melech” to plead on your behalf and secure your release from the mud to solid ground.
Begin to pray now. You don’t belong to the pit that men have dug for you. Pray that God will lift you up where you belong. Where the truth you live by will influence other lives and attract them to your God. Otherwise, who are you going to preach to in the pit? How is glory that is covered in mud ever going to attract someone to your God?
You see, God has already raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms ( Ephe 2 : 6); refuse the pit; plead for divine intervention now!
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