Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Saturday, June 30, 2018 | Topic: Conscience 59
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 pit experience in the school of the wilderness represented depression, abandonment, desperation, brokenness, discouragement and the tendency to give up on hope. To many hopefuls in this life, the short but torrid experience that Joseph went through in the pit would have been to them an indication of God having deserted them. It was Joseph’s first trial into wilderness experience. Inspite of the hate-filled atmosphere of depressing loneliness surrounding Joseph’s situation, grace was firmly in control to ensure that he passed his first test.
God will never leave us alone and neither will He forsake us when we go through trials and temptations. Heb 13:5 says, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for He had said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” Although God had promised to be with us through thick and thin, He’s not going to be a partaker of a manner of life, character or lifestyle of anyone whose general comportment is inconsistent with the standards of the written word.
An avaricious greed to become rich at all cost, defying morality and ethics, deifying acquisition of wealth as the end that justifies the means, is one of the distasteful things that is listed for rebuke, for which God isn’t going to honour with His presence. Prior to the mention of ill-gotten wealth, the writer had not wasted time in mentioning some of the class of people who should not expect to enjoy the unfettered presence of God; among whom were whoremongers and adulterers.
Joseph’s mission when his father, Israel, sent him to his brothers in the field, was simply to enquire about their safety and how they were faring with the feeding of the flock. Joseph was willing to go because he loved and cared about his brothers. Unfortunately for Joseph, his brothers harboured hatred against him; a plot that led to a conspiracy to kill him and kill his dreams. The biggest threats that Joseph carried as far as his brothers were concerned, were his dreams. Without his dreams, Joseph would have been spared the conspiracy of a death sentence that was followed by a pit experience.
Food for thought: The clearest threats to one’s life and ministry are the signals that seek to wipe out one’s dreams.
Declaration: They saw him from afar, and before Joseph came near to them they conspired against him to kill him. Then said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.” Genesis 37:18-19
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
