Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, August 17, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 100
Scripture: And when they saw Joseph afar off, even before he came near to them, they conspired against him to slay him. Genesis 37:18
Note: Joseph’s coat of many colours was a dress of beauty that symbolised the father’s love, positional power and the special relationship between him and his father. It attracted all the negative reasons for jealousy and hatred from his brothers. When the beautiful coat was dipped in blood, it changed the complexion of the coat’s colours. Some of the colours that contributed to the beauty of the coat lost their definition and identity. Some of the less dominant colours totally lost their identity to the imposing and dominant power of the blood, which is red.
What represented a showmanship of beauty was soiled by the redness of the blood. The beauty of the coat was replaced by the ugliness and shocking disappointment of tragedy. The evidence of the coat dipped in blood was instructive of the owner of the coat having been visited by tragedy. The totality of the messed up coat and the extent of the immersion of the coat in the blood, signified only one thing, death. Hopelessness, horrific imaginations of the death process, abject surrender and resignation to the terminal nature of death came to replace a designer’s collector item of adoration, beauty, pride and love.
The picture of the bloody coat defined the life trajectory of Joseph. That was the way his departure from a doting father was announced to Jacob. The thought of slaughter was devastating enough for the old man. It’s purely by the mercies of God that Jacob survived the announcement. Any man that has truly visited the slaughterhouse of Calvary will be dispossessed of all the emptiness of showmanship, the financial shenanigans and idiosyncrasies that used to define the previous lifestyle. The pride of life and the lusts of the world cannot survive the cleansing and renewing power of the blood of Jesus.
The exchange that takes place at the altar of Jesus Christ replaces our ugliness and ashes with the beauty and glory of God. Whereas blood soils and stains our dresses, the blood of Jesus carries an eternal cleansing power that washes the redness and ugliness of our sins as white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). It’s the precious blood of Jesus that makes atonement for our souls. Joseph’s life was spared because the kid goat died in his place. Today, we don’t need to purchase a goat or make payment of any sort to anyone for the purchase of our redemption. Our redemption has been fully paid for, as a result of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.
Food for thought: The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news for all mankind. It’s God’s power for salvation to all who believe.
Declaration: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. Rom 1:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
