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January '03
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5

February '03
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9

March '03
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13

April '03
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17

May '03
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22

June '03
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26

July '03
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31

August '03
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35

September '03
Week 36
Week 37
Week 38
Week 39

October '03
Week 40
Week 41
Week 42
Week 43
Week 44

November '03
Week 45
Week 46
Week 47
Week 48

December '03
Week 49
Week 50
Week 51
Week 52

Key Passage: Hebrews 12:15-16

“Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God…like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.”

“I can’t see you. Things have changed. I’m different now, and I don’t want to see you anymore.”

These were some of the last words I heard from Judy, a girl whose conversion meant so much to me. She met the Lord during one of our services in her High School Chapel, in Nigeria, and her testimony was great. However, her Christian experience was full of ups and downs. She could not leave her worldly ways and her friends with whom she enjoyed riotous living. She backslid after graduation, and cut off her Christian friends.

Two years later, when I traveled to United States on missions, I met a devout Christian woman in Maryland who turned out to be Judy’s mother. Judy had left home because she felt that her mother could not tolerate her loose living. She gave me Judy’s phone number and I called her. I wanted to see her but she refused. She had gotten so deeply involved with worldly affairs and would not want to meet me.

Quite unfortunate, but that was the story of a girl who once loved the Lord, but who turned back because of worldly lust. Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:10, “For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.” In 2 John 2:15, Apostle John said, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” No one can have the best of the two worlds. Judy chose the way of Esau, a man who sold his birthright just for a pot of portage. She lost her birthright as a child of God because of worldly pleasure. And we know the end of that way – regret and death (Pr 14:12).

Pray, Lord, take away from me the love for worldly pleasure; help me to love you whole-heartedly and be faithful to you to the end.

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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