Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
I owe my life to you...
Wonderful Savior
My heart belongs to Thee
I will remember always the blood You shed for me
Wonderful Savior
My heart will know Your worth
So I will embrace You always as I walk this earth
Chorus:
Be blessed, be loved, be lifted high
Be treasured here
Be glorified
I owe my life to You my Lord
Here I am....
Beautiful Jesus
How may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are
Beautiful Jesus
You are my only worth
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth
Chorus
Daily Life..
Sometimes life just knocks the breath right out of you! Somehow you have to get back up and keep going..
I find that so much easier with Yeshua directing my paths and my steps..
His word truly is a light to my path..
On another note..
Saturday evening I finally got around to cutting 5 of my boys hair..they look so handsome!
Thursday evening we leave for Indy to the Indiana Homeschool Convention. We will be staying with some friends of ours that we haven't seen since July 2008. We are very much looking forward to seeing them and catching up.
Blessings!
I find that so much easier with Yeshua directing my paths and my steps..
His word truly is a light to my path..
On another note..
Saturday evening I finally got around to cutting 5 of my boys hair..they look so handsome!
Thursday evening we leave for Indy to the Indiana Homeschool Convention. We will be staying with some friends of ours that we haven't seen since July 2008. We are very much looking forward to seeing them and catching up.
Blessings!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4 Words...
Grace...so thankful for that word..thankful for what it means to me. Thankful for the picture it paints in my world.
Redemption..so many things to be redeemed from..beauty for ashes..
Forgiveness...even in our human frailities when we can't forgive our L-rd forgives and throws it into the sea of forgetfulness never to be thought on again..there is no billboard advertising our failures and faults..even the one in our own heart can't stand in the presence of the one who embodies this word..
Love..nothing truly like this word in our physical world..when we gaze upon His face I wonder will it be in that moment that we truly understand?
Monday, February 15, 2010
Multitude Mondays; Gratitude
81. cloth dipes
82. paint in all its glorious color choices!
83. tax refunds!
84. hotel stays
85. free bassinets that are so sweet!
86. adorable fabric for nursery curtains
87. a necklace given by my man on our anniversary!
88. flower deliveries
89. new bible studies
90. that spring will come someday soon!
Particulars
Terumah
For the week of February 20, 2010 / 6 Adar 5770
Torah: Shemot / Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
Haftarah: 1 Melachim / 1 Kings 5:26 - 6:13
Particulars
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle (Hebrew: mishkan), and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. (Shemot / Exodus 25:8,9; ESV)
Many people think that in the Old Covenant knowing God required keeping his rules, rules that no one could actually keep. They contrast this to their understanding of the New Covenant. Under this new system, they say, we can relate to God by grace, which, according to them, is based on God's unconditional love, meaning, because of what Yeshua did for us, then no matter what we do, God accepts us.
While there are smidgens of truth laced through this explanation, it actually misrepresents both Old and New Covenants. If under the Old Covenant, the only way to have a right relationship with God was to fully keep his rules, then no one had such a relationship, which is not the case. All the way through the Old Covenant writings, we find many people who truly knew God, imperfect though they were.
As for the New Covenant, the Messiah himself spoke of the narrow gate and hard way leading to life that few people find (see Matthew 7:14). Paul and the other New Covenant writers are clear that anyone who concludes that God's forgiveness through the Messiah implies that we can doing anything we like, has completely missed the point (See Romans 6 for example).
Our Torah portion describes the particulars of the mishkan (English: tabernacle). The mishkan was a tent-like portable structure that was to be the central place of sacrifice and worship for the people of Israel. It was a precursor to the permanent Temple that Solomon would build many years later. Many people who attempt to read through the Bible get bogged down when they get to passages such as this one, because they find the details uninteresting. It is understandable that people would find the narrative portions more gripping, but that doesn't make them more important. God is very particular when it comes to how we are to relate to him. He didn't tell Moses to make any old structure he wanted or that the people were free to sacrifice however they liked. Far from it! They were to follow God's directions very carefully. Every detail of the mishkan was designed to help the people know who God really was and what he was really like. Failure to stick to his particulars would lead the people to create a god of their own imaginations, instead of knowing the "I am" who revealed himself to Moses (see Shemot / Exodus 3:14).
While there are significant differences between the Old and New Covenants they both are clear in their insistence regarding the need to stick to God's particulars. The ultimate purpose of the mishkan was to prepare Israel for the coming of the Messiah. To then think we can relate to the Messiah any way we wish is to undermine the essence of biblical teaching about God and his ways. Using a metaphor of a vine and its branches, Yeshua said, "If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned" (John 15:6; ESV). In order to be in right relationship with God, it is absolutely necessary to abide in the Messiah. But how does one abide in him? Yeshua himself tells us when he said, "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love" (John 15:10; ESV).
What many don't seem to understand is that under both Old and New Covenants the only way to properly relate to God was through trusting in him. Right standing with God could never be accomplished by our own moral and spiritual uprightness. We all have fallen short of God's standards and deserve judgment. It is only by his grace that people at any time in human history could truly know him. At the same time what trusting in him entails and how to maintain a right relationship with him has always been based on his particulars, whether it be the mishkan and the sacrificial system under the Old Covenant or the Messiah under the New.
From torahbytes.org...
For the week of February 20, 2010 / 6 Adar 5770
Torah: Shemot / Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
Haftarah: 1 Melachim / 1 Kings 5:26 - 6:13
Particulars
And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle (Hebrew: mishkan), and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. (Shemot / Exodus 25:8,9; ESV)
Many people think that in the Old Covenant knowing God required keeping his rules, rules that no one could actually keep. They contrast this to their understanding of the New Covenant. Under this new system, they say, we can relate to God by grace, which, according to them, is based on God's unconditional love, meaning, because of what Yeshua did for us, then no matter what we do, God accepts us.
While there are smidgens of truth laced through this explanation, it actually misrepresents both Old and New Covenants. If under the Old Covenant, the only way to have a right relationship with God was to fully keep his rules, then no one had such a relationship, which is not the case. All the way through the Old Covenant writings, we find many people who truly knew God, imperfect though they were.
As for the New Covenant, the Messiah himself spoke of the narrow gate and hard way leading to life that few people find (see Matthew 7:14). Paul and the other New Covenant writers are clear that anyone who concludes that God's forgiveness through the Messiah implies that we can doing anything we like, has completely missed the point (See Romans 6 for example).
Our Torah portion describes the particulars of the mishkan (English: tabernacle). The mishkan was a tent-like portable structure that was to be the central place of sacrifice and worship for the people of Israel. It was a precursor to the permanent Temple that Solomon would build many years later. Many people who attempt to read through the Bible get bogged down when they get to passages such as this one, because they find the details uninteresting. It is understandable that people would find the narrative portions more gripping, but that doesn't make them more important. God is very particular when it comes to how we are to relate to him. He didn't tell Moses to make any old structure he wanted or that the people were free to sacrifice however they liked. Far from it! They were to follow God's directions very carefully. Every detail of the mishkan was designed to help the people know who God really was and what he was really like. Failure to stick to his particulars would lead the people to create a god of their own imaginations, instead of knowing the "I am" who revealed himself to Moses (see Shemot / Exodus 3:14).
While there are significant differences between the Old and New Covenants they both are clear in their insistence regarding the need to stick to God's particulars. The ultimate purpose of the mishkan was to prepare Israel for the coming of the Messiah. To then think we can relate to the Messiah any way we wish is to undermine the essence of biblical teaching about God and his ways. Using a metaphor of a vine and its branches, Yeshua said, "If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned" (John 15:6; ESV). In order to be in right relationship with God, it is absolutely necessary to abide in the Messiah. But how does one abide in him? Yeshua himself tells us when he said, "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love" (John 15:10; ESV).
What many don't seem to understand is that under both Old and New Covenants the only way to properly relate to God was through trusting in him. Right standing with God could never be accomplished by our own moral and spiritual uprightness. We all have fallen short of God's standards and deserve judgment. It is only by his grace that people at any time in human history could truly know him. At the same time what trusting in him entails and how to maintain a right relationship with him has always been based on his particulars, whether it be the mishkan and the sacrificial system under the Old Covenant or the Messiah under the New.
From torahbytes.org...
Thursday, February 11, 2010
15 years!
Today my dh and I have been married for 15 years! It's a day to celebrate 15 years of love!
My dh has been a wonderful gift to me from Father! He has walked many hard roads with me. He has dealt with hard hits and trials with grace and compassion. He is truly my hero!
I have learned much from him. His understanding and giving spirit. His genuine love for others. His unselfishness for our children. He is a wonderful daddy!
He is my bestfriend! He is the one Yeshua made for me! Even before we knew each other my manly man had a dream about his future wife.. Our marriage was truly written by Father!
I never imagined I could be this happy and blessed!
Thank you Father for my husband! My lover and my bestfriend!
My dh has been a wonderful gift to me from Father! He has walked many hard roads with me. He has dealt with hard hits and trials with grace and compassion. He is truly my hero!
I have learned much from him. His understanding and giving spirit. His genuine love for others. His unselfishness for our children. He is a wonderful daddy!
He is my bestfriend! He is the one Yeshua made for me! Even before we knew each other my manly man had a dream about his future wife.. Our marriage was truly written by Father!
I never imagined I could be this happy and blessed!
Thank you Father for my husband! My lover and my bestfriend!
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