Yom Sheni, Kislev 20, 6004 – November 18, 2019
Snap Into Place
Yesterday I had some frustrating moments dealing with a device that used the “snap into place” technology to hold various pieces together. Have you ever found yourself particularly upset with inanimate objects? Silly, right? And yet, for me at least, I return to this behavior every once in a while. Odd. Or at least it is, until I stop and think it through.
What is there that we can learn from “snap in place” technology? First, it is a great concept from a manufacturing perspective. If something comes together without fasteners or chemical adhesives, there are fewer parts and less to clean up. Second, it takes time to create the overall product. There is planning, modeling, modifying – all take time and resources. And lastly, how it feels. As I consider my experience from yesterday, the moments that really stand out as “feel goods” are those moments when I got to the part where the “snap” was applied. It just feels right.
That is what prayer and meditation is like for me. They are the inputs from my side. When I spend time with my Father, I try to do what those that have gone before me have done.
Psalms 55:16 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.
It is a learning process, for sure, to take what YAH tells us in prayer and engraft it into our lives.
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
And then there is that moment when that snap is created, everything fits, and we just know. It is those moments that serve to remind us of the reality of YAH in our lives and this world.
Joshua 4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.
So, today, let’s spend time with YAH, and look to that snap.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Yes, You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here, and let Your will be done here, on earth as it is in heaven. Send us now Your provision. Let the manna overflow to those around us, Father. 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. Keep us from the temptations that we would not follow other gods. It is Your kingdom, Father, that is in our hearts and minds and bodies. Restore us Father. Restore unto us Your blessings promised, of substance and jewels, and prosperity that all men might know that You alone have done this. We ask all these things of You, Father and King, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiach. Amen.