Here we see a happy family on the seashore, standing on the pier and
watching the sunrise. Theirs love for each other and their children is
beautiful and created by the Creator. It reflects our Savior Adonai
Yeshua's love for his beloved ones in his congregation here on earth.
What does our Creator want to change us into?
When we read the Bible, we notice how our Creator has tried to make us fit for heaven. That is, those who are worthy to be with him for all eternity and who can rightly be called his children. Being a child comes with rights and obligations. Especially for the children of the Most High, they are necessary.
Ever since our ancestors broke the prohibition they were given not to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in paradise, our Creator has striven and taken great efforts to guide us to obedience to his will. According to the Scriptures of the New Covenant, our Creator foreknew that man would fall into sin.
In the following, I will bring up two examples of how our Creator wants to change us gradually if we only agree to his gracious handling.
What do we learn from Job's sufferings?
In my opinion, he was one of the best human examples who tried to be obedient to his Creator in everything. I believe that our Creator wanted to teach Job more about what he is like as his Creator and how much he loves him. After all, it is quite a different thing to tremble and fear our Creator than to feel his infinite love and that's why to want to please Him!
From slavery we learned that the slave had to obey his master in everything. As for children, they too are required to obey their parents, but it is taught to them in a different way, more mercifully, than to slaves. I do not approve of slavery, but from it we can learn how sin completely and mercilessly chains its practitioners. Adonai Yeshua said, "Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." John 8:34
In the end, when Job's relatives and friends abandoned him and his only hope was to meet his Creator in such a way that at least a dialogue would be born. That's what our Creator was striving for in the beginning, but since as a result of the Fall, all of humanity had come under the power of the Devil, the Creator sought the right way to meet Job. Perhaps He thought it was the only way he should had the moral right to show his presence to his creation Job (who, as the whole humanity, was still under dominion of Devil) and show him that he is love and does not bully anyone.
This is why our Creator incited the Devil to test Job, but two times and strictly limited! Then Devil treated Job really mercilessly and cruelly, first by destroying all his ritches and huge possessions and 10 children, and then on the second time by hitting Job with painful boils all over his body. Our Creator knew what kind of creation Job was and showed the Devil that man, Job, in all his weakness and inadequacy, wants to honor his Creator.
When Job finally got to meet his Creator, he got to experience his wonderful love. Therefore, our Creator did not need to separately assure that Job is especially beloved to him. I know this from my experience already in my youth, when I had the grace to meet him face to face in the center of Helsinki in 1971. He appeared to me outwardly as a man, but his holiness revealed who He really was, and the infinite love that flowed from him to my whole being left no room for doubt! The words were then unnecessary.
I've gotten the best poems and songs when I was overwhelmed distressed in my soul. I wouldn't have prepared these many Shabat studies if I hadn't longed to get closer to my Creator and to know him more in the Spirit. While preparing them, I have learned to know Him and his love for me and his other creatures more than before. I still have a lot to learn, but eternity is perhaps enough for that(?)
I've gotten the best poems and songs when I was overwhelmed distressed in my soul. I wouldn't have prepared these many Shabat studies if I hadn't longed to get closer to my Creator and to know him more in the Spirit. While preparing them, I have learned to know Him and his love for me and his other creatures more than before. I still have a lot to learn, but eternity is perhaps enough for that(?)
Why did the Son of the Most High come into the world?
Anyone who has read through John 3 knows the reason. Adonai Yeshua said the following about it: "For Elohim so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
Furthermore, Adonai Yeshua said that he came to nullify the works of the Devil as follows: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10 The thief is the Devil.
Adonai Yeshua came into the world to seek the lost, heal the sick and call sinners to repentance. He taught about these things, saying:
"The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10
"It is not the healthy who need a healer, but the sick." Luke 5:31
"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:22
Adonai Yeshua came into the world for a living example to teach us of onto which kind our Creator wants us to become inwardly, to be able to live a happy life forever as his children in heaven. We must learn to love our Creator and all our neighbors! Yeshua HaMashiach is the Creator and Redeemer of mankind. Yehowah Elohim created in him, through him, and into him with the help of his Holy Spirit all that is created in heaven and on earth. He was born as a man, the Son of Man, to be able to act as a defender of people before the Most Holy YHWH Elohim.
Adonai Yeshua's main mission was to reconcile people to Father Elohim and pay the ransom for us. That payment was his holy blood for our sins:
"5 (Grace and peace also) from Yeshua HaMashiach - the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood 6 and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his Elohim and Father - to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen." Revelation 1:5-6
The extreme display of love of the Holy Majesty, our Father Yehowah Elohim, towards the fallen human race he created is unfathomable! Humanity was already internally completely corrupted as a result of original sin and ripe for being cast into hell. The greatness of His act of mercy can never be measured in any way! That's why a song I heard from the days of the charismatic movement (1970) still speaks to me: "Yeshua taught us to love each others. He created all nations as one." Eph. 2:14-16
"14 For he (Yeshua HaMashiach) is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments with its decrees. He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and to reconcile them both in one body to Elohim through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed."
Songs suitable for the topic
May the Good Lord Bless and keep you
The Steadfast Love of the Lord
The King is Coming
In Heavenly Love Abiding
Everlasting Father
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