DCLM Daily Manna 19 June 2025 Devotional By Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Peace Ahead
TOPIC: Peace Ahead (DCLM Daily Manna 19 June 2025)
KEY VERSE: “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3).
TEXT: Isaiah 2:1-9 (KJV)
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
MESSAGE:
A Roman poet once said: “Sweet peace has transformed me. I was once the property of the soldier and am now the property of the husbandman.”
Wherever the latter times are mentioned in Scripture, the days of the Messiah are always meant; especially the days yet to come, to which all prophecies hasten, when “the house of the God of Jacob” namely, Jerusalem, shall be the centre to which the converted nations shall flock together. The prophecies in the second, third, and fourth chapters make one continued discourse. The first five verses foretell the kingdom of the Messiah, the conversion of the Gentiles, and their admission into it.
The second chapter foretold the punishment of the unbelieving Jews for their idolatrous practices, their confidence in their own strength, and their distrust of God’s protection. Moreover, the destruction of idolatry because of the establishment of the Messiah’s kingdom at Jerusalem, and, like an object set on the highest hill, made so conspicuous that all nations are attracted to it.
Christ promotes peace as well as holiness. At the establishment of His kingdom at the Millennium, great peace shall flourish through the reign of the Prince of Peace on the earth. So then, as the Roman poet surmises, great peace shall overshadow the earth, as she becomes “the property of the husbandman.” Whatever others do, let us, as believers, therefore, walk in the light of this peace and daily act, talk, and live our life as ‘agents’ of His peace. Let us remember that when true religion flourishes in the atmosphere of peace, men delight in going to the house of the Lord, and in urging others to accompany them.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Colossians 1-4
Deeper Life Daily Manna was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
