Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, June 29, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 58
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: Joseph’s relatively short but miserable period in the pit was the beginning of his life in the school of the wilderness. Unfortunately for him, the education, training and development being impacted didn’t take place in the kind of ambience that would be considered as congenial atmosphere for impartation of critical learning. Bludgeoned into a dark pit by an unfamiliar brigade of hate-filled blood brothers who wished never to set eyes on him again, Joseph’s beginning encounter with the reality of the harshness of true life away from the pampering protection of a doting father, had just begun.
Separated from the protection of a trusted father whose coat of many colours he made for him constantly reminded Joseph of the love of the father, the shocking and conscienceless experience he received from his brothers was in sharp contrast to the father’s love. Unfortunately for Joseph, he was rudely stripped of the coat of many colours, what represented to him the symbol of the father’s love. Once the enemy succeeds in convincing us of the absence of the Father’s love, he knows that he can easily break down our spirit of resilience, leaving us with no other option than to give up.
This treatment sounded outrageously unfair and wicked on the part of Joseph’s brothers. Yet, it was only a beginning lesson, an introduction to the curriculum that was going to usher a naked, weeping, hungry and thirsty young man who was not even certain that his life would be spared him, into the most ambitious curriculum ever in the wilderness of life. Joseph had quickly forgotten the day he shared with glee the details of his dream that saw the sun, the moon and the stars all bowing down before him.
The assignment and the glory that goes with the exalted position have life’s hard lessons attached to them. The barriers to these lessons cannot be skipped. They must be scaled. Our muscles become exercised and toughened for much tougher assignments as we keep on exercising them. God uses the toughness of obstacles we need to scale over, to teach our hands to war, otherwise we will be unprepared to face the giants in our lives, as we would not have tried the tools of war before the main battle.
Food for thought: The requirement at any battlefront is execution. The lessons of a previous battle are meant for the next level of battle.
Declaration: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.” Genesis 37:9
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
