Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, June 21, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 153
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: Gen 3:8, “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” Sin has a uniquely disingenuous way of keeping people away from God. After committing an act which they knew was horrendous and terminal in magnitude, Adam and Eve, already concluded within themselves that God would be extremely displeased with them for disobeying Him. They left themselves no room to acknowledge their sin and ask God for forgiveness.
While God was busily and frantically looking for them, they were also very busy on the opposite side, scheming on how they could run away from God. Running away or hiding from God is always an exercise in futility. No man can hide from the presence of God. After all, the whole earth and everything that is in the earth was created by God. All the fullness of the earth, including every secret and hiding place is known to Him. God is all knowing, everywhere and all powerful.
No one can be compared to God, not even the old serpent, who succeeded in spewing out that deception to Eve. He himself was created by God. It will always remain a laughable joke under any circumstance and under any type of conditions to ever attempt to compare the created or the creature with the Creator. In his warped mind and wildest dream and imagination, the old serpent, also known as Lucifer, Satan or the devil, had wanted to be like God, with the intention to usurp the throne of God.
Much as that might seem grossly laughable and completely ludicrous an endeavour to entertain in the first place, it was an ignominious act that happened and for which the devil was cast away from heaven. In life, everyone is responsible for their own actions or foolishness. No one has a monopoly over anyone’s thoughts or imaginations, but at the end of the day, we’re answerable to the Creator for our actions, thoughts or imaginations. There’s a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Food for thought: Adam and Eve wilfully and knowingly chose the way of death. Yet, when the shadows of death started approaching their way, they began to run into hiding.
Declaration: There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Prov 14:12 & 16:25)
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
