Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Topic: The empty tomb 91
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: “Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.” (Num. 32:8)
Kadeshbarnea means holy. It was a place of refuge in the desert for the wandering Israelites who were de facto fugitives having found a safe haven in the desert; discouraged, despaired and downhearted as a result of the evil report from the 10 spies who were in the majority, the fear and panic of the presence of giants in the promised land was for many Israelites, the death of their dreams.
Moses was embarrassingly disappointed with the shocking behaviour of the very people that he had led out from Egypt, who had witnessed the stupendous miracles from the hand of God, unleashed on Pharaoh and his enslavement brigade, were eyewitnesses to the drowning of the chariots, horses and soldiers of Pharaoh’s chasing, killing brigade when Israel trekked on dry land through the same Red Sea that their adversaries capitulated in.
Kadeshbarnea for all it stood for; holy refuge for fugitives, was desecrated shamelessly by the cry of anguish and despair from a nation whose heart had failed her. Moses was strong. He never gave up hope on the people whose unbelievable unbelief, given their track record of what they had witnessed with their own eyes, heard in their own ears, smelled the flavour of God’s supernatural power, tasted of the manna from heaven that sustained them on a daily basis without their having to work for it and tasted of God’s goodness when they were supernaturally sustained from sicknesses and diseases, their sandals not getting worn through 40 years of wilderness wandering, tried all the tricks in the books to wake up a nation that had given up.
Moses turned to the children of Reuben and Gad for encouragement, but the look in their eyes said it all; they had all but given up, completely forgotten about the miracles in the past and immediate future, nothing good and inspiring about the handiwork of God worth remembering. The only thing on their minds was the big disappointment God had brought them into and they wailed like people without hope and without God.
Food for thought: Jehovah is the God of the past, present and future. His faithfulness is forever sure.
Declaration: Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever. (Heb 13:8)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
