Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Wednesday, January 3, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 321
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: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Enough examples abound in the various diverse ways through which individuals come to an encounter with Jesus Christ. The uncertainties surrounding the diversities are indicative of the truth that coming into a saving encounter with Jesus Christ is purely a supernatural operation of the Spirit of God.
Man’s natural attraction for the spectacular manifestation of God’s power serves as a nectar by which he is drawn into the presence of God. Nicodemus, in John chapter 3, was a typical example of a deeply religious person, belonging to the upper class of society, that got attracted to the spectacular miracles of Jesus. Obviously shy as was expected due to his social status, Nicodemus had chosen the blinding cover of darkness as his sure cover for the covet operation of seeking for answers to a spiritual truth that was to impact his life for eternity.
The example of Nicodemus was that of man seeking after Jesus. Unlike that of Nicodemus, the scenario of Jesus meeting the woman at the pool of Samaria was that of God reaching out to man. Deeply hurt and disappointed with the flip-flop nature of men, the nameless woman at the well, who initially didn’t know who Christ was, had been indifferent to the advances of Jesus. Playing hard to get, as is normal with most women when they are dealing with a person of the opposite sex that they aren’t familiar with, she tried finding every reason in the world to fend off Jesus. Reasons from culture, racial to gender, were lined up one after the other in military style formation to kill off the seeming interest from Jesus.
Since time immemorial, man had been accustomed to erecting false barriers in his obstinate and vain attempts to push God away from himself. Man has surrounded himself with obnoxious laws that seek to completely overthrow the influence of God in the affairs of men. Humanistic and satanic laws have been enacted as barriers to the influence of God. In what seems like a coup d’etat against the influence of God in the affairs of men, man had sought to hide his destiny under humanism, socialism, atheism, homosexuality, licentiousness and freedom without inhibition. Yet, the same man, caught wanting in desperation after being faced with disasters beyond his control, had always questioned God’s negligence and indifference to disasters.
Food for thought: God loves man unconditionally, that’s why He offered His only Son, Jesus Christ to come and die for man.
Declaration: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
