I’ve been trying to clean the leaven from those hard to reach places, the heart….my heart. I’ve been inside looking around at attitude, forgiveness, and intention. I’ve been looking for things that I hang on to and haven’t recognized that I should give to Elohim; both emotionally and inherited beliefs that aren’t what He wants for me. It’s hard work.
This year it seems the cry in my heart is the challenge of what we believe about this season we are in. My thoughts:
Are we following others because it looks good and sounds good? Have we sufficiently studied to be able to answer for our beliefs about why the calendar starts when we believe it does? Including the first day of a biblical month. When the barley is Aviv. Do we truly understand the term aviv and the intention it was given? When we need the barley to be Aviv.
I’m not saying that what you believe is wrong; what I believe is wrong. What I am saying is that as we mature in the Word, our beliefs change because we understand more scripture. We should not simply be following our favorite figure, WE must answer for OUR faith with confidence. As we apply the truth He gives us He then gives us more to understand. As we mature we also need to look backward at our foundational beliefs and make sure that some small item doesn’t need to be chucked out.
You see, we stake our very relationship with Elohim on these foundations….our relationship and our eternal being. While we are in a joyous time of year, we are in a solemn time of year. There were many who were alive in Yeshua’s day that didn’t recognize their Messiah.
We come thousands of years later and are looking through history backward, through what was recorded for us. Hopefully, we are looking back with the Holy Spirit in us leading us into the mysteries of who the Messiah is.
We are approaching the time of the bread and the wine of the Melech Tzadik, the Messiah’s Supper. Paul warns in Corinthians about not partaking in the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner.
Throwing out the yeast-bread is easy, digging out the leaven in the heart is hard work. It’s not pleasant to recognize you, by your own resolve, could do better. And when we are yielded to the working of the Holy Spirit we are better at applying that resolve.
There are many of you I feel I’ve come to know through soc-media, as much as we can know an individual electronically. I have grown to love many of you. However, when we face that great ×¢××ר, that great crossing over, we face it individually with only our faith and works of our life. I want to have internalized enough of The Lamb, The Wilderness Quail, The Manna Bread, enough of The Unleavened Barley bread to carry me safely through that final ×¢××ר.Updated Mar 24, 2018, 9:14 AM