Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Thursday, February 8, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 352
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 assurance of eternal glory is the most powerful, most enduring truth and efficacious support for all believers who will definitely go through one form of earthly calamity, challenge or the other in their lives. Assurance provides steel, stability and solid foundation upon which our faith rests upon.
It is for these reasons that we do not faint or give up. They’re not options, even under the most trying or tempting of moments. For we know what we have believed and whom we have believed in. This is what inspired the apostle to make that emphatic statement of faith. It was a situation in which Paul had no present physical proof to show for, except for his belief. Yet, Paul spoke as if he was already in possession of something that he was supposed to hope for. It wasn’t a coincidence when Paul stated this: “For we know.”
This soothing assurance of truth is good for the soul. For we know that the present afflictions of this mortal life are incomparably less in weight, temporal, temporary, even transient, compared with the glory that awaits us. 2Cor 4:16-17, ” For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
To faint is to become spiritless, to be wearied out or to be exhausted. This is not our portion in Christ. For we know the one in whom we have believed. Even if extenuating circumstances militate against our lives, our faith and our ministry, doing all their worst to crush us on every side, they will only succeed in further strengthening us in the inner man. Through these experiences, our inner man is renewed day by day. Instead of seeing our demise or rejoicing in our downfall, they instead witness a new man that’s created after Christ Jesus.
Food for thought: Afflictions do not crush the faith of a Christian. Instead, he becomes toughened for greater exploits.
Declaration: For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 2Cor 4:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
