VICTORY DAILY BIBLE READING AND MEDITATION
Date: 28-01-2026
TODAY'S READING: EXODUS 30-32 | MEDITATION: EXODUS 32:1; 7-8
A heart that forgets
"The human heart is very quick to forget and abandon God. We may not be involved in open idolatry like Israel when they made a golden calf and called it their god, but we tend to quit, turn our back on God and turn on other things as soon as there is a delay in God’s manifestation. That is why we must sometimes tell our heart to never forget.
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John 10:10
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
Jan 28, 2026
Meditation : Exodus 32:1; 7-8
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” … And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’”
A heart that forgets
In Psalm 103, one of David’s heart-touching compositions, he instructed his heart to always bless the Lord and never forget any of His benefits. It is believed that David wrote this song in the later years of his life when everyone has a mature outlook over their own shortcomings and can appreciate more deeply God’s grace. In this psalm, he lists a few things that his soul should never forget, a testament to God’s faithfulness in his life. Why would David use a command language to talk to his heart? It is because the heart is deceitful above all and tends to easily forget God’s benefits. No one would have thought that after what Israel witnessed in Egypt, how mightier their God was before Pharaoh, that after a few days of Moses’ absence, they would say, “We want another god, to take us back in Egypt”. Unfortunately, that is how the human heart is. We are very quick to forget and abandon God. We may not be involved in open idolatry like these people, but we tend to quit, turn our back on God and turn on other things as soon as there is a delay in God’s manifestation. That is why we must sometimes tell our heart: do not forget!
Reference: Psalm 103:1-5; Jeremiah 17:9
Meditation Scripture
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Meditation Scripture
Exodus 32:1; 7-8
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” … And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’”
Victory Messages
Devotion
"Leaving a Legacy – Go the extra mile (Part 3)"
“And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two” Matthew 5:41 (NIV)
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Devotion
Leaving a Legacy : Breakthrough and create a path (Part 2)
There is a quote credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson (an American
philosopher of the 19th century) that says, “Do not go where the
path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” They
explain it as meaning that you should not necessarily do things the way others
do, create your own solution, be creative and innovative. I like this quote,
and I also like to think of it with a different meaning, that if you find
yourself stuck where there is no way, create a new way to come out of whatever
is holding you down. This brings to my mind some war tactics I have watched or
read. I’ve watched many war movies and
have always been fascinated by military tactics and strategies. There are times
one camp finds itself completely surrounded by the enemy. There are only two
solutions left for them: surrender and die in the enemies’ hands or create an
opening in the enemy’s lines. The last one requires too many sacrifices and may
result in many casualties, even total destruction. But the former is a solution
of the coward that leaves behind humiliation and loss of dignity and freedom.
There are
times in real life when we find ourselves surrounded by problems from all
sides. Spiritually, you have lost your compass, when it comes to health, you
are not well, financially you are bankrupt, and your social and family life is
disintegrating. Here I’m not talking of everyday challenges or the common life’s
tests and difficulties, but of serious problems, with the magnitude of a
tsunami, that can determine life or death. People who will leave a legacy don’t
allow themselves to be entrapped by problems. Whatever the cost, these people
create a way for themselves and for others next to them. They are willing to
pay the price with whatever means they have. These are people like Maya
Angelou, Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, and many others. They broke from
strongholds of racial and gender prejudices, cultural barriers and abject
poverty. Such people have this mentality: “if I do nothing, I will die for sure;
if I try something, I might also die, but I prefer to die trying.” They don’t
wait for someone else to create an opening; they go where there is no way and
leave a trail. Isn’t this what happened with the four lepers in 2 Kings 7? If
we stay here, they said to themselves, we will die, there is famine in the
city; if we say we go to the Syrians’ camp, we might also get killed. But what
is sure is that we can’t stay here for death is certain if we do nothing. There
is no living without taking risk, our daily life is in fact about risk though
sometimes we don’t even realize it. But as they say, if you risk nothing, you
have nothing. For the four lepers, they had reached the dead end, and they did
not have the luxury to wait for the king or the prophet Elisha to find a
solution for them. They had to break through and find their own path. Their act
of bravery saved them, saved their king and the rest of the people.
A man of
God told me of the revelation he received about the statue of Daniel 2:31-32.
The statue’s head was made of pure gold. He told me that God revealed to him
that the human head is pure gold; it is full of riches far greater than any
other riches. It is no wonder that the best computing machine ever made can’t
be compared to the human brain’s capacity. God has put all the capacity to
create, invent and solve problems in our brains. Don’t let yours sit idle, use
it to create, innovate to find solutions, and leave a trail for others who will
follow. Don’t rely on others to think for you, and don’t allow your mind to be
trapped in a box, that is why they say: think outside the box. This is not a
blessing given to some and kept from others, God gave all of us a head made of
pure gold. The more you will use it, the more it will work for you to create
new ways. Remember the parable of Matthew 25:14-30. The more we use what we
have, the more it creates room for more to be added.
Posted : Jan 19, 2026
Devotion
Leaving a Legacy – Be relevant in your time (Part 1)
The other day I watched a movie based on real-life events. It was about a woman called Erin Brockovich. The events in that movie were so touching that I decided to do some research on her. This was in 1990. Erin Brockovich was a single mother of three, a two-time divorcee and had limited means of survival. She worked as a legal clerk in a big law firm. However she had no formal law education. As a clerk, she came across a critical case involving a big corporation sued by a community for water contamination. Water pollution was believed to have sparked many cancer-related deaths in the area. The case was deemed hopeless by her boss. Nevertheless, her lack of proper education did not stop her from getting involved in helping that community. She started by talking to the plaintiffs, did some research on her own with her money and compiled valuable reports. With her findings, she convinced her boss to take on the lawsuit, which they ultimately won. What started as an act of kindness propelled her to stardom, opened incredible opportunities for her, and she was eventually involved in other similar cases in her native US and abroad as a consumer advocate and environmental activist.
There
is a reason why you are where you are at the moment. Whether you are a cook, a
cleaner or the highest-ranked official in your organization, you have to be
relevant because it is not by accident that you are at that place at that time.
Being relevant means to be important, to be the kind of person others can
depend on. Esther became a queen in a miraculous way, however it was not by
accident or good fortune. The God who foresees everything had placed her in the
position of a queen so she could save her people from total destruction. You
don’t need to have power, money, or anything else; you need a heart that is
caring for the people. If you care, God will do the rest; he will use what you
have and multiply its effects. In Luke 10:25-37, we find the story of the Good
Samaritan. It is a parable. However, this nameless and faceless man is known
and respected worldwide and has been preached for centuries and across
continents. What made him stand out? Only three things: he saw a problem,
someone in need; he approached the problem, he felt concerned and was moved by
compassion, and he resolved the problem with what he had. Just like the Good
Samaritan, Erin saw a problem, people in need, and set out to help them with
what she had.
Life is
more than breathing in and out. It’s giving ourselves to others. That’s the
secret of greatness, a life that leaves behind a legacy for others to follow. Unfortunately,
these are the times where everyone is concerned with their own persons. None is
concerned about the neighbour, at least when they can’t see any potential
benefits of caring for their neighbours. However, you should know that the
reason God put you somewhere is for you to become a solution to someone who may
be hopeless without you. As the bible says, who knows whether we are where we
are now to be relevant for someone’s else life? It doesn’t require much, just
what you have. Like the angel told Gideon, go with the strength you have
(Judges 6:14). God is asking each one not to save thousands, but to be relevant
wherever we are, show compassion and be the kind of person people around us can
count on. Mordecai told Esther, do not be silent, even though you are not
primarily affected, this problem concerns you too (Esther 4:14a). I remember a
leader who always told his subordinates that, “as leaders, you can’t be
unconcerned.” You want to leave a legacy, an example for future generations to
follow, then live “concerned.” In any small or big capacity God gives you,
learn to be relevant to people around you.
Posted : Jan 12, 2026
Devotion
Life is about one’s legacy
I thank
God for my parents. Though everyone should be proud of and honor their parents,
whoever they are. I was blessed to have parents who invested in people. I was
doubly blessed to have in-laws who walked in the same principles I was raised
in. So many times, I met people who told me your father helped us in this way.
Others would say, your father-in-law did this. I am really grateful; they set a
high standard for us; we hope we will be able to imitate them. One day, with a
colleague, we visited a community of survivors of the genocide against the
Tutsi; we were accompanied by a man who was in charge of that support program for
genocide survivors. After the visit, on our way back, the man told me, “I know
your father; I waited to tell you because I wanted to see if you are like him.”
To cut the story short, I got credited for more than what I did just because of
my father.
A
legacy or an inheritance is something you leave to your children to help them
set off well in life. And the Bible says that a good man leaves an inheritance
not only to his children but also to his children’s children. It does not
necessarily have to be money or properties. It can also be a good name and good
deeds done to others. These may actually help your children more than houses,
lands and animals. They can be more valuable than all the material things you
can imagine. I saw people I ’don’t know open doors for me that I did not
deserve or worked hard for because of my parents. Billy Graham once said that “the
greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not
money or other material things accumulated in life, but rather a legacy of
character and faith.” However, though we like to think of a legacy positively,
a legacy can also be negative. Your children may inherit the consequences of
your crimes when they themselves are completely innocent. In the same way I had
unmerited opportunities because of my parents, I know many who lost
opportunities for the same reasons or have to work twice as much to build their
own reputation. Therefore, whether you live well or bad, whether your deeds are
commendable or condemnable, you are leaving a legacy behind you, and your
children will reap the fruits of your actions, for life is about legacy.
Though
our lives here on earth are short, we keep on living through our children and our
children’s children. A good man should be able to look his children in the eyes
and tell them, like Paul told the Corinthians, “Be my imitators (1Corinthians
4:16) or follow my example” (1Corinthians 11:1). He should be able to
say, learn from me, the way I work, walk, love, pray, trust God, etc. This is a
life that leaves behind a legacy. If you want to be that man (or woman), always
ask yourself questions such as how do I want to be remembered when I am gone,
by my family, friends or colleagues? What kind of impact do I want to leave in
the community? Is there any contribution I made to my field of expertise? Are
there any lives (other than my family) that I have touched? You can add your
own questions as you think about what you want to leave behind. I found that by
building your life around the four following aspects, you are living a life of
legacy: be relevant wherever you are; always go the extra mile; create a path:
be the solution; and live beyond you: outlive yourself.
Posted : Jan 05, 2026
Weekly Devotion
Leaving a Legacy – Go the extra mile (Part 3)
At my former
job, we used a performance contract system as a means of defining the
institution’s priorities and keeping all employees focused on achieving these
priorities. At the end of the year, a points system was used to evaluate
everyone’s achievement based on their annual targets. The evaluation system had
of course key statements for assessment. The first one was: “did the employee
achieve his/her target, on time and within the budget?” What is strange is that
the maximum mark for such an employee was 12 or 13 out of 15. In my
understanding, I always felt it was unfair. If someone did what was expected
from them, on time and within the budget, they should receive the full mark.
This was until I realized and understood that no one rewards the ordinary.
Rewards and recognition are for extraordinary achievements, for people who go
above and beyond their assigned duties.
Going the
extra mile is a well-known and famous concept in management, leadership,
customer service, and many other areas. What many might not know is that the
term originated from the Bible. The term simply means doing beyond what is
expected of you; to put in more effort than required. To put it in context,
when Jesus enounced that principle, Judea was under Roman military occupation.
Under their military law, any Roman soldier could command a Jew to carry his
soldier’s pack for one mile – but only one mile. Jesus here says, “Go beyond
the one mile required by law.” Jesus was exhorting his listeners, as a
principle, to do well beyond what is expected from them, because if you do what
you are required to do, there is no reward for that, because it is what you
have been hired to do; it is what you are being paid for. Jesus was clear about
this principle. He challenged his followers with it in Luke 17:7-10. If you
have done what you had to do, why should you expect to be thanked or why should
you think you deserve special treatment? He said, “when you have done all those
things for which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We
have done what was our duty to do’.” Luke 17:10 (NIV). This is to show how God
and people value the principle of going the extra mile. God knows our strength;
he knows how far you can stretch your efforts. He is not asking you to put your
health in danger or empty your coffer out of generosity; he is asking you to do
your very best. Remember that taxi driver. Instead of dropping the old lady in
front of her house, he got out, opened the door and helped her to the door. She
never forgot him, and he became her unique taxi driver. He left a lasting
impact on her.
People who
live a life of legacy always go the extra mile. When everyone is content with
the “good,” they strive for the “excellent.” When everyone works eight hours a
day, they make it ten. No one is born extraordinary; ordinary people can think,
act, and become extraordinary. It takes an ordinary man acting extraordinarily
to leave a mark on earth and contribute to the future. That is not a matter of
a born-with or a God-given gift, luck or fate; it’s a result of choice. One
chooses to leave a legacy. In his book Think Big, Ben Carson, the
preeminent American surgeon now politician talked about how his mother shaped
his life and left an unerasable mark in his life. His mother (Sonya) had little
education, but she had decided that it would not be an excuse for failure. Her
life of legacy produced two wonderful men, one of them grew to become one of
the greatest neurosurgeons in the US of his time. Her attitude towards work was
like, “I will sweep the house until they say only Sonya could do such a great
job.” Going the extra mile is a choice that pays off.
Posted : Jan 26, 2026
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