Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, June 29, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 160
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.” True fellowship with one another is only achieved when it’s done in transparency under the spotlight of God’s word. It wasn’t a mere coincidence when Adam and Eve began getting dodgy with God after they had knowingly contravened His instructions.
When shady and non transparent things become the stock in trade among believers in one fellowship or a local church, these are indications of the desire to hide whatever is transpiring in their lives from one another. The indications are that, some parties have allowed the seed of mistrust, hurt or confusion to cloud their minds and thinking. The fear to disclose the root of the divided thoughts becomes the vital tool that the enemy requires to keep them isolated and separated from one another within their hearts. They may be present in body but absent in spirit.
Such poisoned or offended believers become ineffective among the rest of the believers in the local church or fellowship. When undetected early, this onset of hurt or offence gradually leads to a breakdown in communication between the brethren. Everyone begins to quietly move into the ‘tents of their hearts’. This movement might be very gradual and almost unnoticeable. It takes believers with the spirit of caring, who aren’t looking only in their own tents, but caring enough to look at each other’s back, to detect the trouble that’s brewing.
God cares enough to look for the whereabouts of Adam and Eve. This took place the very moment they disobeyed God, after discovering their own nakedness in the process. They were running away from God at the time He was searching for them. The behaviour of man today is not different from what happened to the first Adam. Man in disobedience is still running away from God, looking for solutions to his nakedness. It took the death and shedding of the blood of an innocent animal at the hands of God to clothe the nakedness of man.
Food for thought: Sin exposed man’s nakedness, making him run away from God. Yet, God’s love for man compelled Him to look for lost man.
Declaration: But God commends His love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Rom 5:8
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
