Yom Shabbat, Av 23, 6004 – July 27, 2019
Best Tool For Our Walk
We want our walk to be great. We want our lives to be great. It is clear that change is good, from a scriptural perspective.
Psalms 55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
So, to get to great if it is not we must change. That is a good thing.
Unfortunately, for many of us, our idea of great is for everyone else to change. The result of that is people talking about others, which is not good for anyone. In the end if we know that change is good, we should seek change that is Godly. And fortunately there is one tool that is really good for that, or actually two. The mirror – if you look into it long enough you will see the truth and change. And then the spiritual mirror – the scriptures.
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
We have a simple truth, a simple answer, a simple way to walk. Use the mirror our Father has given to us.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here, and lete Your will be done here, on earth as it is in heaven. Send us now Your provision. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore unto Your people all the goods that have been taken or held back in any way, and the more besides. We ask all these things of You Father King, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiach. Amen.