Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Monday, July 17, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 175
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: John 12:24, “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.” Every farmer knows that a grain of wheat or corn can serve two purposes. Firstly, it can be consumed to satisfy an immediate hunger need. Secondly, it can be preserved as a seed and sown into the ground, from where it germinates and eventually bears much fruit.
There’s a season for sowing and a season for reaping. It’s very important for every farmer to know and respect the season in which s(he) is operating, in order not to be disappointed. Sowing at the season of harvest is madness. The climatic conditions at harvest may not support favourable survival of the seed in the first place or it survives the yield may be abysmal. However, during the season for sowing, predictable rainfall patterns support the survival and germination of the planted seed, giving it the opportunity to grow into its full potential.
Seeds have hard outer shells naturally. When the seed is planted in the soil, one of the first things that takes place is that the hard outer shell gets broken. By this process, the seed dies to its old self. Out of this process of getting broken or dying, other important processes emerge. While the disintegrated seed in the soil is undergoing changes, it develops roots that get sunk further into the soil to provide foundation and stability for the new emerging plant.
Out of the broken, disintegrated seed, emerges a fragile new growth that breaks through the soil. This brings joy and hope to the farmer that the invested seed didn’t die for nothing. All the period that the seed is in the soil, getting broken and disintegrated, nothing is heard or seen of it. If the seed doesn’t go through the difficult process of dying, it stands no chance whatsoever of sprouting from the belly of the earth. This is exactly what Jesus Christ went through when He willingly chose to go through the process of death on Calvary cross, so that through His death, many will have life everlasting.
Food for thought: Life that’s lived purposely in glorification of self, is a wasted life of loneliness, selfishness and depression.
Declaration: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Phi 1:21
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
