DEEPER LIFE DAILY MANNA FOR TODAY
Daily Manna by Pastor Kumuyi 4th August 2026 is a daily devotional sets out to provide spiritual nourishment for the believers who truly seek God and would walk closely with Him.
The Topic of Deeper Life Daily Manna Devotional for 4th August 2026 Is “Grace for The Fallen Ones”
Text: 2 Corinthians 2:6-11 (KJV)
KEY VERSE: (2 Corinthians 2:11).
“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
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DAILY MANNA FOR TODAY
In his book, Uncommon Friends, James D. Newton (1905-1999) related the story of Thomas A. Edison, who was working on a light bulb, which took a team of men 24 hours to complete. When he finished, he gave it to a young boy to carry upstairs. The boy held it nervously and mistakenly dropped it at the top of the stairs. The entire team took 24 more hours to make another bulb. Finally, tired and ready for a break, Edison was prepared to have his bulb carried up the stairs. He handed it to the same young boy who had dropped the first one. That was a demonstration of true forgiveness.
Apostle Paul, in today’s text, showed similar forgiveness in the Corinthian church. The young man was involved in the egregious sin of sleeping with his father’s wife. News of this incest and the associated scandal so grieved the apostle that he cancelled his planned trip to them and wrote a stern rebuke, instructing them to excommunicate the offender. With time, when the discipline had had the expected effect of godly sorrow and repentance on both the incestuous fellow and the church, the apostle recommended that the man be restored fully to fellowship. The penitent offender needed the forgiveness and acceptance of the church to assuage his agony and recover his spiritual confidence.
This narrative highlights a balanced blend of chastisement and charity. Apostle Paul reasoned that abandoning the excommunicated offender, even after his repentance, would cause him further torture and give Satan a chance to hijack the affair; “… for we are not ignorant of Satan’s devices”, he said. Many believers seem to be ignorant of Satan’s devices in this regard. Very often, a fallen Christian is left to rot on the island of banishment. Many such forgotten ones would have traced their way back home to calvary and church, but for the hostile attitude of the believers around them.
If God, Apostle Paul, and the Corinthian church could forgive a repentant incestuous backslider, who are we to keep such fallen brethren away from the means of grace? Let us give Satan no advantage over the church.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If you can’t keep a brother from falling, don’t keep him from rising up.
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