7.26.2022 RIP 2.0 Ruach Reflections: Tza'ad(Step) 7 isn't for the FAINT of HEART 2 Chronicles 7:13-18
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Is our relationship with Elohim YAHWEH supposed to be One-Way Street?
While this may be a strange way to open conversation on a topic as paramount to SALVATION as REPENTANCE or TESHUVAH is, the author can't help but believe MOST of us believe it is.
That reality could be what is holding us back from truly knowing HIM and His Desire for our lives. To understand Step 7 as asking "GOD" as we understand him to remove our "SHORTCOMINGS" kind of downplays the gravity of what caused our Messiah's Suffering.
I may be wrong, but that terminology waters down, filters if you will our SIN through a very fine cloth that leaves us with far less to deal with than the Kitvei Ha Kodesh actually suggests.
I know many believe the Word to be open to personal interpretation, and that is not my intent here, in fact, I hope to discourage that understanding. The Path to the Garden of Gethsemane or Place of the Oil Press crossed the Brook Kidron, it was shortly after that, MessiYAH was witnessed to have wept so hard that Blood and Tears flowed from HIM simultaneously.
To consider that mere "SHORTCOMINGS" could elicit that kind of PAINFUL EMOTION is almost insulting! Only a handful of times is it recorded that Elohim YAHUAH "repented" of CREATING MAN; while the details of YAHUSHA's Prayers during this time are limited to "Father if it is Your Will, take this cup from me!"
Could it be accurately considered that Elohim YAHUSHA actually requested or asked at that moment that very question?
Thoughts to consider as we walk in our Master's footsteps, possibly knowing full well that the Brook will be still enough to see our reflections in.
https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Kidron.html
https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Gethsemane.html
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