Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 176
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.” The choice of whether to consume a seed immediately or invest it into a future enterprise of having the seed planted to yield multiple seeds is dependent upon the decision of the owner of the seed. The desire to satiate our immediate needs is always strong and tempting. It cannot be taken for granted or underestimated.
The thin line between poverty and riches, has very often been determined by the wrong or right choices that we make today. Yet, very often, most people find it easier to blame the misfortunes of their current conditions on other people. Reasons may range from failure of their uncaring parents, to their unsupportive siblings, to their heartless spouses, to their unfaithful friends, to their wicked bosses, to their uncaring Pastor, to their unfriendly church, to gossiping fellow believers, to the incompetent President of the nation, to the unfavourable economic downturn of the country, to the fouled environment, and even to unpredictable nature.
The list is endless, and God is unsurprisingly not excluded from the tall list of reasons for man’s failure. One spectacular example of a nation that’s consuming her future prospects ahead of time is our dear nation Ghana. Political decision makers have mortgaged our untapped oil resources for huge loans intended for development. Meanwhile, the value of the intended projects is nowhere near the sum of total loans contracted. The masses have been shortchanged in value for money, leaving many people bemused, disenchanted and poorer than before.
Wrong decisions, wrong initiatives, lack of political will and in most cases pure greed on the part of political stakeholders, have seen Ghana being raped of her natural resources of gold and river bodies. Renewable assets in cash crops such as cocoa have had their lands been unwisely exchanged for quick money ventures in the extractive gold mining business, senselessly poisoning our river bodies which serve as the sources of drinking water for the people, destroying the ecosystem with reckless abandon, rendering the defenceless masses poorer, sickly and hopeless. Few greedy people, their foreign cohorts and their self-serving political masters have become the new feudal lords perpetuating greed, wickedness and subjugation of their own people to the worse kind of suffering and deprivation.
Food for thought: Man without Christ is capable of the most senseless crimes against fellow man.
Declaration: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, of obedience unto righteousness? Rom 6:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
