Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Saturday, January 13, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 330
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.” In John 4, in what seems like a bizarre trend of events, the woman at the well who encountered Jesus, seemed to have reached a point in her life where no man man wanted her for a wife again. The only man in her life was there for her entertainment value. Yet, deep within her, she knew that although men had rejected her, she wasn’t a finished article.
Culturally despised by the standards and traditions of men, the woman who had lived in agony, continually on the knife edge of the uncertainty, the unfaithfulness and the lack of trustworthiness of men’s word, always finding herself an unfortunate victim of her worst fears and nightmares; separation from the men she thought she loved.
Her own mistakes that were repeated from one relationship to the other, seemed to have kept faith with her frustrations in further letting her down. Her consistency at letting herself down against her dreams and aspirations in life, reminded her as a scum bag of failure, only redeemable by the supernatural touch of God in her life. It wasn’t only the self-righteous, religious bigots in Judaea and Galilee who had been living in earnest manifestation of the Messiah that ever met Him. This wretched woman, even by the wretched lifestyle of Samaria, was yet hopeful of the coming of the Messiah.
Is it any wonder that of all the supposedly good people, certified by the religious know it all of Jerusalem, Jesus would cross the border into an uncovenanted territory of Samaria to locate this unlikely woman for the greatest gift of God. She traversed suddenly from a low point of rejection, abandonment and ignominy of men into the highest point of a life changing encounter with Jesus.
Food for thought: Time is man’s constraint and barrier. It’s no constraint or barrier to the move of God on earth.
Declaration: Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” John 4:10
