Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, January 10, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 327
Scripture: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building. (Heb 9:11)
Note: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” When God steps into man’s situation, the methods, the means and the men that He chooses to use in the execution of His redemption plan, are way beyond the thoughts, wisdom and anticipation of mortal man. When Jesus began an interaction with the woman at the well of Samaria in John 4, what looked like an everyday conversation that was not expected to travel beyond what happened at the well, turned out to become one of the most spectacular miracles in world evangelism.
By the predictably, most often unforgiving standards of the Church, as per the religious expectations of the people at the time, this woman of Samaria, with nothing good to write home about as far as her tortuous history of relationships with men were concerned, was never expected to make the cut of candidates who could be considered, called and chosen as an evangelist in her home city, where her not too proud past with men was there for all to see as a public information.
For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance, Rom 11:29. Once God decides on someone according to His own eternal wisdom, to call that person to perform a specific task, no matter how nonsensical, illogical and even unwise that decision might seem to humans, God is always right, having His own reasons and purposes for making that call. People may judge based on the considerations of human competence and past precedence, but God looks on the inside of man, for He is a God of knowledge and by Him actions are weighed, 1Sam 2:3.
This woman of Samaria is considered dead and history as far as ministry work is concerned. Her heavy, inglorious past could not have convinced anyone else, let alone herself as an upstart in ministry. Worse still, she was still living in sin. Yet, Jesus took the life history of a woman so wretched and condemned by society and sent her as the first missionary to the nation of Samaria with the message of the gospel. And she turned the whole nation to Jesus Christ with her messed up testimony of her life.
Food for thought: Human hindrance, no matter how impossible it might seem, cannot stop God from doing what He desires to do.
Declaration: Talk no more exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. 1Sam 2:3
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
