Samuel D. High
sdhigh@aristotle.net
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From: "Apostle Tom" <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:09:04 -0500
To: pressingon@hotmail.com
Subject: Morning Manna (Aug. 3); BP: Ps. 133; RBTTY: Rom. 6; Ps. 63-65
August 3 “The Sweet Fragrance of Fellowship”
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in
unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron’s beard—that went down to the skirts of his garments.”
Psalm 133:1-2
No one will have to tell us when it’s there; we’ll know it.
Do you remember the kind of games we used to play as kids: Games like
“Red Rover, Red Rover, let _______ come over”. . .hopscotch. . .hide-and-
seek. . .marbles. . .dodge-ball, etc.? Such games are unknown to today’s
younger generation, for they’re much more into X-Boxes, computers, etc.,
than they are such “primitive,” non-technological, interactive games.
But, there are some “games” that never go out-of-style: Games like
“one-up-man-ship”. . . “I’ll get even with you”. . . “My house, clothes,
watch, car, _________, etc., is better than yours, etc.” And, then we
wonder why we have such “fragmented relationships” and never feel close to
God or anyone else for that matter.
We know much about “childishness”—for that’s something that many a
person never outgrows, no matter how old chronologically they get. They’ve
never gotten over “This is MINE and you can’t have it” or “If you’re going
to act that way, I’m going to take my ball and go home.” They’re much more
adept at “turf warfare” than they are at nurturing trust. . .building fences
than building bridges. . .finding fault than finding good . . . condemning
and criticizing than consoling and comforting, etc.
And, then we wonder why the world doesn’t want to have anything to do
with us?
Oh, dear Pilgrim, if we are to ever experience “oneness” with the
Father each other, we must crave this more than anything else in this world.
Until we quit (as someone once said) acting like “the only army that kills
its wounded” and start being “a hospital for sinners instead of a hotel for
saints,” we’ll never experience God’s glory and the reality of today’s
Manna.
The “precious ointment” David referred to in the anointing of Aaron as
High Priest was made up of sweet cinnamon, sweet calamus, cassia lignea and
olive oil (Ex. 20:23). Evidently, the combination of these ingredients was
quite delightful—both to the one being anointed and those standing nearby.
Is it any wonder, then, that the “man after God’s own heart” (I Sam.
13:14) likened this holy experience to “brethren who dwell together in
unity?” And, is it any wonder that he described such a harmonious union as
“good and pleasant (Heb. ‘na ‘iym’—‘delightful, sweet, agreeable, beautiful,
etc.’)?” Glory!!
We don’t have to wait until we die to experience this. Didn’t Jesus
say in His “Priestly Prayer” that the “glory of unity” He had with the
Father was passed on to us (Jn. 17:5, 22)? Therefore, let us commit
ourselves today to make this our “magnificent obsession”—for a lost and
dying world’s eternal destiny hangs perilously in the balances and they need
to know Jesus loves them. . .and we do too.
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