Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, January 12, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 329
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.” The story of the woman at the well in John 4, is the typical story that’s normally said to speak for itself. The publicly messed up life of this woman, still groping in the dark to locate the right man in her life, after several failed official marriages, left her with not much of a chance at explaining the circumstances that might have culminated in the failure of her relationships.
When this woman walked to the well at noon with water on her mind, it wasn’t the perfect destination that she had in mind, if ever she were to be given the rare opportunity to explain to the public what might have led to her misfortune. She wasn’t looking forward to give any explanation either. It wasn’t lost on her that society would not waste its precious time listening to a dead beat like her. She was after all, sufficiently wasted by men to be considered a candidate to be permanently retired into the dustbin of history, without anyone raising a finger of objection.
Such was the depressing mood that might have occupied her mind, choosing to hang out with any man who was ready to ignore the shame of being caller one of her also-run catches. The way society had for years been led and structured by men to favour men, gave her no real chance in hell to extricate herself from the evidence of five successive men. Aside the tangible aspects of the evidence that might have led to the collapse of her marriages, the intangible, more difficult to defend against evidence would as usual be speaking loudly.
It won’t be difficult to imagine that she could have been tagged along as a bad luck woman, a witch and a woman who consumed her own husband’s fortunes mysteriously. How could any poor woman be able to defend herself against such heavy, intangible accusations? What must have made her situation more difficult was if the same intangible negative traits kept repeating themselves one husband after the other. It would only go to confirm or fuel suspicions of the naysayers, who were simply watching proceedings on the fence, expecting their worst fears to come to pass.
Food for thought: What man considers as both tangible and intangible evidence, is no match in the presence of an overbearing supernatural manifestation.
Declaration: And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land. Deut 11:3
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
