Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 350
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.” Paul was a tentmaker who was very familiar with the nuances that went into putting up a house made with human hands. Here, Paul was talking about a house not made with hands. He was talking about the perfect, eternal and glorious tabernacle with which the believer shall be clothed with from above. The glorious resurrection body is far above and beyond anything that human wisdom and knowledge might contrive.
The eternal capacity of the new tabernacle which the believer shall be clothed with, is enough strength, inspiration and motivation to the believer to strive for excellence in the calling which we have been called in Christ. Phi 3:14, “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” In forgetting about his past victories and conquests, the Apostle Paul was warning on the dangers of falling into the pinnacle trap that one gets that he had arrived in the work of the ministry. He encouraged believers to keep pressing on as he was doing, never taking it for granted that he had reached his target.
Eventually, when the soul of a Christian is clothed with that wonderful and glorious body just like the body with which Jesus rose from the dead (Phi 3:21), decay, corruption and death shall be no more. The soul of the redeemed shall enjoy eternal life. It’s the joy of this infallible word of assurance that goads the believer on to greater exploits for the Lord. Though the Lord was explicit in rewarding our sacrifices on earth, no earthly compensation of value can be compared with the splendour, beauty and glory of the new tabernacle with which we shall be adorned.
A relationship with Jesus Christ is the most emphatic hope of an assured life beyond our present life on planet earth. The Christian believer doesn’t die hoping to make it to heaven. We know our fate before we depart the earth. We know the one in whom we have believed. Man is by nature a creature with eternal aspirations. Even self-confessed atheists who vehemently denied the existence of God and hence life after death, have often quietly confessed to an internal fear within on the question of God’s reality and the possibility of their getting it wrong with all the consequences.
Food for thought: Irrespective of whatever we believe in, we shall answer to our Creator after our life on earth.
Declaration: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. Phi 3:21
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
