Monday, 8th June, 2026
Bible Reading: Isaiah 40: 6-8
Memory Verse: As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades. 1 Peter 1:24 (NLT)
Be blessed by this piece I came across: Nothing is Permanent In This World. I visited my 120-year-old grandmother and gave her some money when I was leaving and she told me she doesn’t need money again. That she can no longer buy or sell at her age, so I should give the money to the younger ones who need it.
I also had a former governor friend whom I worked with as a greenhorn journalist. He was governor from 1999-2007. Not too long ago, I saw him. After check-in, he was left seated by the corner of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport awaiting his flight.
No one could recognise him again, not even passengers from the State where he was governor. I walked up to him and greeted him, then asked if he wanted any assistance. He stretched forth his trembling hands to hold me and simply said, “Thank you for even recognising me again. I just want your attention briefly my son. Sit down let me ask you something: How is your governor doing?”
I also have a retired Major General friend whom I served as a golf caddy at the NDA golf course in Kurmi Mashi, Kaduna. He was so rich that he built a beautiful house he was so proud of. I visited him too not long ago and wanted us to climb to our favourite spot on his balcony upstairs. He stared at me with a broad smile and said, “Jally, I can’t remember the year I went up there. It is lizards and cobwebs and the likes that live there now. Even the kids, when they come, they don’t enjoy my company in the house any more than a few hours and they are gone. I don’t have the limbs to climb up there again and the cost of cleaning keeps getting higher.”
I have seen a lot more things. How yesterday became the day before, how today became yesterday, and how tomorrow became today. How the past became history, how the present became the past, and how the future became the present.
Nothing ever remains where it is.
Your strength, your muscles, your beauty, your wealth, your guts, your worth, your courage, your talent, your YOU, will progressively diminish until it returns to its source.
The richest man in the world in the 1960s will not be on the payroll of the richest man in the world today! Even the strongest lion in the jungle will someday become weak, and frail and be eaten by the same predators it once terrorized.
Keep that in mind always and know that no matter how appealing and tempting that thing may seem, our interest in it will diminish with time. Our strength to consume or own it will vanish with time until everything is surely taken away from us or we are surely taken away from everything! “Nothing is Permanent In This World”.
Quote: Life is transient.
Prophetic Decree: May your life count on earth and in eternity, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Lord, please help me to remember that no matter how appealing and tempting a thing is, my interest in it will diminish with time.
2. Holy Spirit, please help me to remember that my strength, my muscles, my beauty, my wealth, my guts, my worth, my courage, and my talent, my fame may progressively diminish until it returns to You.
3. Uncanny appetite, greed, and covetousness in my life, die in my heart, in Jesus name.
4. I refuse to allow my earthly sojourn to interrupt my heavenly ministry, in Jesus name.
5. Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life shall not strip me of earthly relevance and heavenly glory, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Proverbs 16-18
