Shalom to all,
I was searching for a Messianic Judaism forum website and came across this one. Time of questioning and searching has been very frustrating for me as of late. I have many questions and searching for answers.
There are many things that I see in the bible as being true and yet not sure if it applies to me. Now I am not a Jewish believer however I see that as Gentile believers in Yeshua we are to also be obedient to God's law.
Yet the question remains as to where does God's grace and love come in. There are many more and I have limitied time to go into more detail, as I am using the library's computer.
I hope that someone will take notice and help me along with my questions.
Moriah Ruth
Now, as to YHVH's grace and love...it is amply provided to us.
Abba keeps an eye on us, and hears our prayers, and when we are in His will, He answers them swiftly and surely. The difficulty is staying in His will on this desperately broken planet, in the wind up to the Last Day. I find that as I keep my mind in the scriptures, reading them, hearing them, discussing them, I find it easier to stay in His will, and thus feel at peace, and happy.
Yeshua is always there, ready with that total compassion He showed on the earth, knowing how hard it is to be living as a human, and always willing to lend us a hand up when we fall.
The Spirit is always with us...guiding us, coaching us, dragging us back from an idiotic idea, or a wrong thought or action, making things easier.
This is grace.
The love is everywhere if you will but open yourself to it.
Prayer and praise are needed to start the day, and end it, and I constantly am singing praise, both in Tongues and out, so that I stay out of inconvenient thoughts.
Are you worried? Sing praise. Are you angry? Sing praise. Are you
or depressed? Sing praise. Are you anxious? Sing praise.
Which is not to say that I find it easy to do all of the above all day every day, but the more I do it, the more I do it!
However, the more I plan my days and my thoughts around doing this, the better my days go, and the more I feel love and grace in my life.
The Adversary is always there, seeking to kill, steal, and destroy, and therefore I wrote, with much help from the Holy Spirit, a series of commands, casting out spirits, and throwing down stronghold, closings doors, and windows, speaking against curses, that I say every day after morning prayer...and if I miss a day, it always turns out to be horrendous.
I am not pounding my drum here...I am pounding the drum for YHVH, Yeshua, and the Ruach haKodesh, who have guided me to learn all this in the Bible. Every Scripture is there to transform you.
The best thing you can do is read all the scriptures over yourself...outloud...washing yourself in the Word...it will transform you...it has transformed me.
Every instruction in the Tanakh and Brit Chadashah (Old and New Testaments) is an act of Love. Every instruction prevents pain or trouble, and enables kindness and helpfulness to others, which is why we are supposed to do them...to love Abba, and Yeshua, and the Holy One, and each other.
Romans 10:1-21 (CJB)
1 Brothers, my heart’s deepest desire and my prayer to God for Isra’el is for their salvation;
2 for I can testify to their zeal for God. But it is not based on correct understanding;
3 for, since they are unaware of God’s way of making people righteous and instead seek to set up their own, they have not submitted themselves to God’s way of making people righteous.
4 For the goal at which the
aims is the Messiah, who offers righteousness to everyone who trusts.
5 For Moshe writes about the righteousness grounded in the
that the person who does these things will attain life through them.
6 Moreover, the righteousness grounded in trusting says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend to heaven?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah down —
7 or, “‘Who will descend into Sh’ol?’” — that is, to bring the Messiah up from the dead.
8 What, then, does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” — that is, the word about trust which we proclaim, namely,
9 that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.
10 For with the heart one goes on trusting and thus continues toward righteousness, while with the mouth one keeps on making public acknowledgement and thus continues toward deliverance.
11 For the passage quoted says that everyone who rests his trust on him will not be humiliated.
12 That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile — Adonai is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him,
13 since everyone who calls on the name of Adonai will be delivered.
14 But how can they call on someone if they haven’t trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him?
15 And how can people proclaim him unless God sends them? — as the Tanakh puts it, “How beautiful are the feet of those announcing good news about good things!”
16 The problem is that they haven’t all paid attention to the Good News and obeyed it. For Yesha‘yahu says, “Adonai, who has trusted what he has heard from us?”
17 So trust comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through a word proclaimed about the Messiah.
18 “But, I say, isn’t it rather that they didn’t hear?” No, they did hear — “Their voice has gone out throughout the whole world and their words to the ends of the earth.”
19 “But, I say, isn’t it rather that Isra’el didn’t understand?” “I will provoke you to jealousy over a non-nation, over a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”
20 Moreover, Yesha‘yahu boldly says, “I was found by those who were not looking for me, I became known to those who did not ask for me”;
21 but to Isra’el he says, “All day long I held out my hands to a people who kept disobeying and contradicting.”
Ruth, you can read love and grace over your life, every day by reading the Scriptures out loud, and see it performed in your mind, your heart, your soul, and your body. When you drive, listen to an audio Bible or praise music. When you work, choose, and then sing a few lines of the same praise song all day under your breath.
And the Word, voiced in prayer, praise and study is such comfort and joy.
This is the essence of what is written in the Tanakh:
Joshua 1:8-9 (KJV)
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Finding Love and Grace begins and ends in the Scriptures...first between you and G-d, and then adding in discussion with others, until you overflow with your joy in YHVH.
I first seek YHVH's face, and then He gives me the desires of my heart...and my desires are to know Him intimately, and be taken care of by Him all the time as I learn to do what he wants me to do. His love lets us rest in Him, and have joy and peace...true shalom.