Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, July 6, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 166
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.” Some people fail to appropriately confront issues, leaving them to time and chance to heal, when it’s expected that tempers and emotions are cooled down.
Although it’s an established fact that when tempers cool, calm heads are likely to come up with the best solution to a problem, talking over an issue remains an unavoidable and critical path that cannot easily be glossed over. In situations where people have acted like ostriches, they have hopefully had to rely on things resolving naturally by themselves without human intervention.
This belief is however flawed, contradictory to the second law of thermodynamics, which incidentally is the law of entropy. It states that in a closed system, when things are left on their own, matter moves freely into a state of disorder. Overtly, an unresolved problem between two persons might seem to have died down with time. Yet inwardly, trouble could be simmering beneath, and if it’s not checked and resolved in a timely manner, it could end up on a rather sad note.
The classical example of two half brothers, Absalom and Amnon, comes to the fore. These two were royals, with king David as their father. An incestuous rape attack by Amnon on Tamar, Absalom’s sister, humiliating her, ruining her chastity and future in a dastardly manner, resulted in a deep anger on the part of Absalom. King David failed to confront the crisis headlong as a father, leaving it to time to heal. The result was a two year anger hiatus on the part of Absalom, planning evil. Hidden and showing no overt anger or emotions, David and Amnon both assumed that all was well and forgotten. The sudden strike by Absalom, killing his half brother in cold blood under the fictitious auspices of a royal party, woke the king up from his ineptitude and slumber, only to be confronted with an irreplaceable loss, shame and failure.
Food for thought: The catastrophic consequences of leaving issues to resolve with time and chance, are too grave an option to consider.
Declaration: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all. Eccl 9:11
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
