Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Tuesday, May 8, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 13
Scripture: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6
Note: At the root of israel’s destruction in the hands of a godless nation like Assyria was a critical lack of knowledge of their God and His word. This critical lack of knowledge had been self inflicted, caused by rejection and forgetfulness of God and His word. These were two factors for which reasons Israel wouldn’t have been able to blame anyone for the ominous fate that befell them and neither could they have expected any shred of sympathy or empathy from anybody.
Israel made a well informed choice based on what she saw as competing interests available to her. The basis of Israel’s choices were founded upon wrong premises. Israel failed to realise her unique relationship with God as that of a marriage relationship. Israel failed to realise that the full requirements for her needs could only have been met within the marital boundaries of her relationship with God. Israel was distracted by the attractive brands of other suitors, as the alluring power of the proverbial greener pastures drew her out of the safe confines of God’s love, faithfulness and provisions.
To forget is to fail to remember. It is to deliberately cease to think of the issues at stake. It means to inadvertently neglect to do, bring, or mention the issues for remedy. Israel basically stopped thinking about God. What Israel did in forgetting God was to use every disingenuous means available to her to expunge every trace of her love relationship with God. It was a decision borne out of a conscious effort and will to disengage from God. It wasn’t an overnight decision. It took precious moments of reflection for her to have weighed the full consequences of her decision.
Rejection is painful. Israel’s rejection of God inspite of the unfailing love, constant provision and proven faithfulness of God to Israel, demonstrated the depth of depravity and ungrateful nature of man. When God sent His Son, Jesus Christ for the redemption of man, He was rejected by His own people. The chain of rejections in the life of Jesus began from His childhood neighbourhood of Nazareth. When Jesus began His ministry, He couldn’t do great miracles among His own people because of their familiarity and spectacular unbelief. Jesus was equally rejected in Jerusalem, hated and despised. His eventual arrest, chastisement and cruel, undeserving death on the cross summarised the true nature of man and his love relationship with God.
Food for thought: Rejection of God’s provision for man’s salvation breaks the heart of God, as He seeks to reconcile man to Himself.
Declaration: That is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 2Cor 5:19
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
