Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Friday, July 8, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 87
Reading: Matthew 27:57-66, 28:1-15
Scripture: He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee. (Luke 24:6)
Note: There’s a popular adage in African folklore which says that, “the monkey says its eyes are its god.” Whenever the monkey is used in African folkloric stories, it’s portrayed as an intelligent animal among the animal species.
Most of these animal stories are meant to teach useful lessons to humans. They are analogous stories not intended to portray the superiority of animals over humans. Instead, they are meant to give hope to the living regarding the possibilities open to humans, the most superior of all God’s creations. The monkey being the wise creature that it is, sees it necessary to have everything that impacts its life verified through visual evidence before accepting the evidence.
Commonsense dictates that things are visually verified as against depending on mere hearsay which can prove deceptive. When the evil report from majority of the spies, ten of them against two other spies reached the Israelites, the majority evidence was unanimously accepted in preference to the minority side.
Democracy is based on what the majority says. As in the case of Israel, democracy prevailed. The difference between the majority and the minority was that whereas the majority evidence was based purely on factual evidence as supported by their 5 senses, the minority spoke what God had said concerning the promised land. The minority side was similarly confronted with the factual evidence of the presence of giants in the land, but that didn’t deter them from believing, accepting and speaking God’s word.
The majority of the people chose the wisdom of the “wise” saying of the monkey as against the wisdom of God’s word. Whenever commonsense, human wisdom, philosophies of men and decisions based on mere human intellect come into confrontation with God’s word, it’s obvious that commonsense is overstepping its boundaries of relevance.
Food for thought: Faith in God’s word is the driving force behind the curriculum for the school of the Spirit.
Declaration: For I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalms 138:2)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
