Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Saturday, July 1, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 162
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.” Within the local church setting of a fellowship, sometimes in extreme instances, communication between two believers can come to a dead stop, and the two will no more be on talking terms; the basic greetings that take place when you meet a brother or a sister is absent.
This can be going on quietly and secretly for quite some time without any responsible person getting a wind of it. Yet, in the midst of this anomaly, they all manage to attend the same local church, having the same pastor, participating in the same worship and praise, and worse of all, possibly sing in the same choir, ministering in worship songs to God in the presence of the same congregation as witnesses, not to talk of the witnesses in heaven, the angels. Meanwhile, in their hearts, these two believers feel very resentful and bitter against each other.
Much as this example might seem outrageous, it’s unfortunately the truth and the reality currently confronting most local churches and fellowships. Another example which is even more outrageous is when these two believers who cannot stand to look into each other’s eyes for barely a flash of a second, manage to gather the courage to literally sit together with the Lord during communion service. They have not considered the Lord’s table as sacred and an opportunity to examine themselves in prior preparation to meeting the Lord.
How so often have we missed this golden opportunity of the celebration of the Lord’s Supper to put things right and in their right perspective? We have allowed our pride and egos to become stumbling blocks in our walk with the Lord. We have for long walked in pretence, play-acting our way through fellowship, deceiving ourselves. If we aren’t walking in the light, how come we presume to be in fellowship with God? We have ritualized our walk with the Lord just like any other social routine in which we’re simply going through the motions.
Food for thought: Pretence, hypocrisy and double standards, have become the modern day stock in trade among among believers in fellowship.
Declaration: If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. 1John 1:6
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
