High Holy Days

In less than a month, the celebrations of the seventh Biblical month will begin!  These are such precious times.  Even though I am celebrating without earthly fellowship, right now, I know that's about to change!  This year is different in so many ways.  Obviously the current events of the world are intensifying, but the power of our Creator is also being made manifest in individual lives, and drawing the remnant unto Himself.

This will also begin the year of Shemitah in Israel and the Land of Goshen.  As I consider all that has taken place in the last six years, I've learned a lot.  I've also still got a lot to learn.  Faith is an interesting part of life, in that it is so intense when it increases, yet the increase brings more increase and more desire for increase.  Oh, I want to convey this so clearly . . . Faith brings a desire for obedience.  I know I'm not perfect, but I want to walk as Messiah walked.  I want to please Abba.  I want the things that please Him to so fill my life there is no time or space for the things that are displeasing to Him.  We were created for His pleasure and next month, we are commanded to observe His Special Days.  So, in obedient observance, I want to bring Him pleasure.

This year will begin so differently than any other.  Abba has increased my understanding and my confidence is in Him.  He's changed so much more of my heart than I even realized needed changing.  He's changed my perspective.  Having followed Messiah now, for twenty years, I'm ready for the next stage of responsibility.  Twenty was the age of accountability in the book of Numbers.  The last Shemitah, I was 13 years in my walk, so it was my spiritual Bat Mitzvah.  Oh, and just like a teen, I thought I knew what I was doing . . . and in some areas I did, but I've learned so much, and moved . . . literally.

I'm learning covenant faith isn't just about my trusting Him, but Abba being able to trust me, as well.  In this past seven years, He's been able to trust me in areas in which I wasn't mature enough before.  He's instilled a confidence in me that I didn't know how to handle before.  And He's given me a desire for peace that I'm sure only comes with maturity.  HalleluYah!  I've outgrown the drama!  I've also grown in trusting Him, that the battle isn't mine and fleeing isn't my option, therefore I am to stand and not be moved.  Doing unto others as I would have them do unto me, is not about accommodating human demands.  I answer to Abba, not people.

The Golden Rule will be more than a motto, as this community gathers; it will be practically applied.  Torah is the Law that is fair to all, without favoritism as well being the Instructions for what it is to follow Messiah.  I smile as I realize, as the community gathers, and the five fold ministry meets around this round table, Messiah is the head!
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of Torah.  Romans 13:10