Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 159
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.” Fellowship among believers is not different from the typical families that we know and are accustomed to. The key similarity between the two comparisons is blood. The family of Christian believers are united through the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. The typical natural families that we are born into, is also by blood by virtue of having the same parents.
Even within the natural families that we are born into, it’s not uncommon for one person to have a smooth sailing relationship with some or most of the siblings, but struggle to be able to maintain a sane conversation with one particular sibling, for unexplained reasons. It is always one argument after another out of nowhere, having to deal with this particular difficult sibling. Unfortunately, it’s even possible that this difficult sibling could be seeing you as the problem person.
Spending time together with such a perceived difficult sibling can be very exhausting. Arguments erupt out of nowhere, even when initial interactions might have seemed promising from the start. The tension of negativity is always simmering beneath the surface, when the outlook indicators are clearly pointing to a promising, happy interaction, at least for once. The problems crop up because at the root of the relationship, there’s a strain that’s unresolved, spewing out suspicious thoughts out of nowhere.
This kind of drama is all too common within the family systems where we all come from. Unfortunately, when we get born again and join the fellowship of believers, these sorts of frictions and nuances expectedly raise their ugly heads, threatening to bring separation, confusion and disillusionment within the fellowship. Satan uses this obvious crack in relationship as a rare opportunity to poison the minds of one another, keeping brethren always in constant battle of internal fighting among themselves, whereas the real enemy is free to cause further havoc to the church or fellowship.
Food for thought: What binds us together is too precious for us to quarrel over trivialities.
Declaration: That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. 1John1:3
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
