Yom Shabbat, Cheshvan 17, 6003 – October 27, 2018
The Longing
Sometimes I just marvel at the feelings and emotions our Father has built into us. How can it be that we have a longing, for example, within us for the people, places, and things that we love? And it seems only logical that these feelings and emotions must be for a purpose, that they move us toward YAH when operated correctly. Since we are created in His image and likeness, then what we feel and emote must be a very small version of what is within Him, right?
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
So, if we have these complex feelings and emotions, and we were given a job to do, is it not likely that these are actually tools with which to do this job? And if “society” works toward deadening these feelings and emotions, or perhaps twisting them in some way, then whose work are they doing? And if man was created on the sixth day, then we were told what our job was, and the very next thing we saw was YAH taking a day off to spend with us. Hmmm.
Maybe there is a point to the Sabbath after all…
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are our King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people. Let Your will be done here perfectly as it is in Heaven. Send us now Your provision that we might be filled and overflow to those around us. Deliver us from the evil here. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Wipe away all of the thoughts and memories of the evil done to us or by us. In their place let there be only thoughts and memories of You and Your love for us. Restore us, Father, unto You as You had meant it to be in the garden. Help us to find peace here, with joy in You. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all the good that the worm has eaten, or that has been taken or held back in any way. Send in quickly the $423,523,962.53 that we might use it to promote the kingdom of God in the hearts and minds and bodies of the people here. We ask all these things of You, Father, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiak. Amen.