Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Saturday, July 15, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 174
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: 1John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” Strained relationships do not stand any real chance at recovery so long as both sides are not prepared to give an inch of space by way of compromise or yielding what they deem or perceive as their natural rights in preference to the more valuable relationships that commonsense dictates must be cherished and fiercely protected at all cost.
A strained relationship is a relationship that’s deemed to be experiencing a dark patch or a blocked tube syndrome. There’s a standoff where at least one or both sides are grandstanding in firm support and defence of their ego. Self becomes the new master in charge. There’s no movement in either directions at the blocked spot. No one is prepared to be the loser or more appropriately put, “be the fool.” It will take at least one side of the feuding parties to unblock his/her side of the tube in order to begin to experience any flow or progress in terms of movement.
No one wants to be tagged the sacrificial lamb. Unfortunately, a lot of believers within a fellowship or in love relationships find themselves being daily confronted with dark patches or blocked tube syndrome. Believers of today seem to know their rights so much that the desire to defend an argument, win a debate or argument and be accorded respect by peers, colleagues and society, far outweighs the example of the ultimate sacrifice of their Master, Jesus Christ, who willingly chose on His own volition to be the sacrificial lamb for the redemption of mankind. He chose to die so that all humanity may live.
Christ became sin for our sakes. We claim to be followers of Him, yet we woefully fail to follow in His exceptional example of becoming sin for us, Him who knew no sin. We worship the vanities of our ego and arrogance. We take vain pride in our intelligence and political correctness. We defend vehemently our right of way with all our soul. We’re prepared to lose everything that we so much cherish in preference to winning a feudal war with little or nothing at stake. We’re so steeped in our self importance that we no more bear any semblance of the noble tag called “Christians”
Food for thought: Misaligned and misdirected pursuits of decadent arrogance have derailed the nobility deserving of Christocentric believers.
Declaration: Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. John 12:24
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
