Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, June 22, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 154
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.” Confidence is a very important ingredient in our worship and walking relationship with God. Without confidence, man will be bereft of the boldness required to come before the throne of God in prayer and to be a true witness of Jesus Christ.
Adam and Eve had disobeyed God, yet, God was still very much interested in them despite the disappointing betrayal man just displayed. After the act of disobedience, man wasn’t confident enough to face up to God for what he had done. God knew exactly where he could find man. He knew it couldn’t have been anywhere else apart from the garden. Yet, God’s search for man revealed that man had moved from his usual place of worship and fellowship in the garden to another location, hiding among the trees in the garden (Gen 3:8).
When people’s hearts are not right with God, they go into hiding just like Adam and Eve did. They are not likely to be consistently found at the place where they’re expected or supposed to be. They become absentee believers in their attitude to fellowship (Heb 10:25). Their first love for God wanes (Rev 2:4). The absentee believer is one of the earliest, clearest and most important signals of a Christian whose personal relationship with God is beginning to suffer cracks. Fellowship with the brethren is now replaced with the often trumpeted, much over-flogged excuse of being extra busy with their secular work or the mundane excuse of not feeling well. Never mind that they’ve taken no medication yet, but are recovering. It’s all a façade.
Much as some of these excuses may turn out to be genuinely intended, most of the excuses are rather coverup for shameful delinquency in fellowship. Personal relationship or fellowship with God will always remain personal but the fruits will become public. The difference between the one truly having any meaningful relationship with God and the one who is not, is by their fruits (Luke 6:43). It will not be long before the truth of their lies and waywardness becomes known or obvious to everyone concerned.
Food for thought: Waywardness is a thief that robs the believer of his joy, confidence, reputation and image.
Declaration: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great recompense of reward. Heb10:35
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
