Wednesday, May 27, 2015
While We Are Here
Some friends of mine have experienced two deaths in their extended families in the last few days. It has been a challenging time for them, to say the least. For me, as I thought about their sorrow in losing friends and family, it caused me to reflect on life and its purpose. Early in life I was more of a person that was living for unrealistic dreams. They were actually not real dreams because I never did anything to actually pursue them. They were more just “wishes.” As I look at life it seems to me we have two missions while we are here. They are to live a good and full life, and to do the Father’s will.
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Yeshua (Jesus) did what He saw the Father doing. And He came for a purpose.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
This is a reflection of what Moses said when He pronounced a blessing on the children of Israel.
Dueteronomy 28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
This is the same message our Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) was saying. Leave off the traditions of men and follow Him, just as He followed after what the Father was doing. Yahuah (Lord) has never changed. His ways and His commandments remain. What has changed is that we have a sacrifice in the death of our Messiah that covers for us when we stray from His ways and commandments. That is not a license to transgress the law (sin). It is just a way of escape when we do.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are worthy of our praise. We praise the name Yahuah. Send us today Your overwhelming provision and drive the evil from our dwellings. Forgive us our sin. Help us, Father. Yahuah, we are but men. You alone are our hope for healing and for deliverance. Deliver us with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Make all men to know through Your deliverance of us that You alone Yahuah have done this. In Yeshua’s (Jesus) name. Amen.