Embrace the Within no. 82

"You must… remind yourself of God, Who God is, and what God is and what God has done."

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God gives us wisdom to know who God is through a personal relationship with Him. God is not just like a father but he is our Father. He is the Father of all things. And He wants to walk with us and talk with us and instruct us and lead us toward all the greatness He has created. I have a great relationship with my father and I know that seems to not be the normal situation in my society. There are a lot of father issues out there in the community. But a father is supposed to protect and guide us. Becoming a father and working through those relationships with my own children, I have gained a lot of perspective in what it takes to be a father. I am by no means perfect in this relationship, however, basing my relationship with my children on the same foundation of God’s relationship with me, I am starting to get a lot more perspective. I read the Bible so differently than I did as a child. Reading through the Torah and the struggle of God’s people to follow His instructions. The stubbornness of Y’israel reveals a lot of stubbornness and arrogance that I had in my life and I see in the world around me. I see a relationship that is broken and flawed BUT I also see Adonai doing everything He can to guide His children out of love. I see a Father trying to fix a broken relationship and works to create a bridge to restore us even when we make huge mistakes.

Adonai has done a lot for us. And He isn’t going to stop doing good things for us. He sent His Son to fulfill the Law. He gave us that perfect remedy to bridge the gap from our sin and transgression through the death and resurrection of His Son. BUT some of us are still too stubborn to take the hand up. Some of us are still building obstacles and worshiping stones. Some of us are still hardening our hearts. Some of us are looking for our own way over God’s Way.

I am choosing the happiness that resides in His Covenant. I am choosing to be a child of the King. I am choosing His Kingdom through Christ.

“How happy are those whose way of life is blameless,

who live by the Torah of Adonai!

How happy are those who observe his instruction,

who seek him wholeheartedly!”

Tehilillim 119:1-2 CJB

Shavua tov. Shalom to your home. Bless your being. The reign of YHWH is now. Be a blessing to YHWH and others.

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Embrace the Within no. 81

"We need to cultivate patience in the midst of our trials [knowing] that God is actively working on our behalf to bring us to a better day."

Philip De Courcy

Wisdom grows through patience because we don’t just wake up one day with wisdom. Wisdom is a process born out of being patient whether we want to be patient or not. Health, gardening, and God have taught me all about patience.

When I first started this journey back in March 2020, I wanted an immediate fix. I was on the fast track to failure and I did just that, I failed. I was determined to change my life right then. I was going to get healthy immediately. I was going to grow my own food immediately. And failure taught me patience. I wasn’t ready to change everything. God had a lot more I needed to learn. And the trials and obstacles that came into my journey helped me learn and granted me patience and the ability to listen.

Closing in on three years of deciding to change, I can look back on that me from then and that me before and realize that patience cultivated in my garden, transformed in my healthy choices, and renewed through my study of the Word led me to be able to sit here today and have the better day I have today.

None of us are walking on water. BUT we are transforming. And we need the patience to allow God to work that transformation in our lives. My walk began with fixing my physical and mental life. I wasn’t looking for God or salvation. BUT He is patient as well and works on His own time to make that change.

And now that I see all the wonderful gifts and graces and benefits and joys of following the Way of the Lord, I can sometimes get impatient with the reluctance and refusal of others to see all those wonderful presents God is willing to give. So, that patience I learned out in the garden, in the basement, and in the study are now being translated into wisdom with dealing in patience with my neighbor.

Just like my garden failed when I tried to make everything happen at once, so will my spiritual seeds fail if I rush them as well. Patience is trust. And if I can’t be patient with God after all the patience He has shown to me, then what is the point?

I have no other choice BUT to control my life and give God the God things to accomplish in His time.

Shavua tov. Shalom to your home. Bless your being. The reign of YHWH is now. Be a blessing to YHWH and others.

#ThinkBetter #BeBetter #NoGodsNoMasters #NoKingButChrist #MyNepheshMyChoice #ChristsLifeMatters #EmbracetheWithin #NotMyWayYHWH #GodKnows