Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, January 4, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 322
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.” The powerful, overriding and intoxicating effects of the attraction attributed to the unmistakable miracles of Christ, could not be underestimated in its drawing power to Christ. Coming from a divide of the religious spectrum that was naturally antagonistic and suspicious towards the ministry of Jesus, the fact of Nicodemus having to bend over completely, burying his pride in the process, in order to have an encounter with Jesus, was worth applauding.
That Nicodemus didn’t come to Jesus walking shoulder high, and touting his religious position and accolades before Jesus, did him a world of good in saving him from what could have turned out to be a complete embarrassment to his person, status and position. Trapped in the power of the attraction of miracles, Nicodemus had tiptoed in a cowered, sober demeanour into the less grandeur surrounding of Jesus and His disciples, under the cover of darkness, seeking to know the truth.
The spot-on, incontrovertible and indefensible miracles wrought through the hand of Jesus was top of his mind when Nicodemus dramatically barged into the room where Jesus was residing. In a mellowed voice, uncharacteristic of a member of the religious ruling class that had arrogated to itself the power and right to determine who was preaching the right stuff and who wasn’t, Nicodemus found himself in an unfamiliar territory that for once made him the one who was trying to acquire knowledge and understanding to the keys behind the unparalleled miracles of Jesus.
Very often, many people have allowed the much knowledge that they had acquired through the world system, to become their own enemies standing in their path to the truth. Pride and arrogance have often combined disingenuously to destroy or obfuscate the channels that are available to our redemption. Worldly knowledge, power, authority, position or clout can do very little to help our efforts at knowing the truth. It takes the operation of the Spirit of God working in man to come to a saving knowledge of the truth.
Food for thought: The unbelief that it takes to be able not to have faith in God, is the same measure of faith needed to believe in God.
Declaration: But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Heb 11:6
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
