Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna| Wednesday, July 5, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 165
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.” Failure to respond positively to a feedback one receives by making the corresponding, necessary changes and adjustments, can be quite frustrating to other believers in fellowship with you. The unpredictable tendency for some believers to react negativity upon receiving a feedback, tends to discourage others from providing useful information that will inure to the growth, edification, restoration and benefit of everyone.
Problems causing rifts, damage to relationships and affecting peaceful coexistence of brethren, need to be appropriately confronted in a timely manner. The right timing and right forum for confronting such issues are critical to mending things. Very often, a simple misunderstanding resulting from such confrontations could end up in further confusion with the affected brethren getting disenchanted. The possibility of losing dissatisfied brethren after such confrontations is rather high.
The approach of the prophet Nathan in his timely confrontation of king David with the truth of his waywardness, is an exceptional example of how to appropriately confront a difficult situation. King David was not an ordinary spring chicken. As king, he was peerless in position, power, influence and ability to manipulate any situation to his advantage without raising a hair of suspicion. Nathan fully understood the enormity of the task confronting him as he approached the king in all humility and in wisdom.
Being let in on the secrecy of the heavily guarded plot was dangerous enough. Nathan must have battled God in prayer on such a dangerous and uncomfortable mission. This type of confrontation saw a unique and spectacular display of boldness in humility and wisdom. Being bold isn’t an unbridled license to speaking your mind freely and recklessly without any sense of inhibition. You might lose a brother or a sister from fellowship for lack of sensitivity; you could easily lose your job for running your mouth freely without limits; you could easily implicate yourself for what is considered an unsubstantiated, false accusation.
Food for thought: Boldness is a virtue that operates effectively within an ambience of humility and wisdom.
Declaration: Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face to shine and the boldness of his face shall be changed. Eccl 8:1
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
