Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, June 16, 2017 | Reading: Exodus 33:11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 149
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: Gen 3:5, “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing, good and evil.” A heavy dose of curiosity in uncharted waters, mixed with a wavering mind of unbelief in God’s word, found Eve being confronted with the cunning and tireless old serpent, whose stock in trade is deception.
Eve suddenly found herself torn between God’s word and that of the old serpent. Both promises, admonitions and particularly the warning from God’s word had one similarity; they were all words. But there was something significantly distinctive between the two personalities behind those words that had been uttered. The difference was that God’s word could be trusted. She had no track record of the old serpent. Yet, she was required to take a major decision between a word from the only trusted source they had known against an untested, unapproved, unverified and unvalidated source.
A raging battle had begun in the mind of Eve. It was a fierce battle which had ramifications that go beyond her wildest imagination. It was a raging battle for the supremacy over the destiny of humanity. Eve had to make a choice between eating of the forbidden fruit or choosing to believe God’s word as the truth. The fascinating thing about the two choices Eve was confronted with was that she was under no obligation at all to make any choice in the first place. After all, ever since they found themselves in charge of the garden, that was the way things had been ever since. Life had been blissful in the paradise of the garden of Eden without the need for a contrary decision.
The only thing Eve stood to miss for taking no decision at all and in allowing the status quo to remain, was in finding out where her curiosity would have landed her. What Eve failed to consider was what the eventual outcome could look like, should she find herself falling foul of the word of God. The insanity of the attractive promises thrown at her by the old serpent were too luscious, too tempting, too inviting and so overwhelming for Eve to ignore. Very much like our generation of today, Eve followed the lust of her eyes as it was good for food and pleasant to the eyes; she fell for the lust of her flesh as she would become wise like God, and the pride of her life in becoming all-knowing and powerful like God. She chose the passing world over the abiding Will of God.
Food for thought: Curiosity kills the cat.
Declaration: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1John 2:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
