Chavah ~ To Speak Forth Truth

Passing on what I know today... not because He is changing but because I am.
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Conformity

There is something in me that screams against conformity. For years I believed that I was rebellious because of my unwillingness to conform. Lately I have begun to wonder who the rebellious ones really are. The world would tell me that I need to conform to their social structure. The church would tell me that I need to conform to their set of rules and regulations for conduct. Rules and regulations that constantly seemed to be changing from one church to another, one group of believers to another. The rules were developed by the believers for their corner of society.

Yeshua told us to be conformed to His image and likeness. For years I let others tell me what His image and likeness looked like, rather than letting Him tell me... but then that would take more time than I had for Him. It was so much easier to let others “do the work” and tell me what He was like and how I should behave.

Recently I have become more aware that perhaps their image of Messiah was vastly different than reality. It began to feel more and more like we had created Him in our image and likeness rather than our being conformed to His.

Perhaps that is the problem I have had with conformity. Perhaps somewhere deep inside I knew that what I was being asked to conform to was not what He had asked me to conform to.

Maybe I’m not so rebellious after all…

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LOMMOY ~ Less of Me, More of You

Chavah ~ To Speak Forth Truth

Passing on what I know today...not because He is changing, but because I am
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I have been thinking about the study of scripture lately, having always loved to get in and parse the Word of G-d. But recently I have noticed that sometimes the “parsing” has gotten in the way of my truly hearing what Yah is saying.

Do we studying God’s word, in order to avoid actually having conversations with Him? Has the academics of studying dulled us to the joy of just abiding in His presence?

As we move more and more into our new understanding, does having more understanding put out the passion or does it increase it? What is our passion for these days, just the written word… or the voice of the living word?

I love that we are seeing the errors of our past understandings and conforming more and more to his image, but has the anger over our past deceptions cause us to become overly academic in our approach, fearful that we have missed something.

Something that will cause us to be transgressors of the law?
Something that will cause us to forget the gentle voice of our beloved?

I want to get my concordances out, line up my commentaries, take up my sword and argue over the word of God. (argue in the nicest sense, of course )

But is that mindset the only basis for my relationship with his Word?

Father, help us to know the gentle voice of our beloved. Help us to not be afraid to listen. Let us not hide behind the academics, forgetting to just spend time with the One who loves us most. Let me get back to seeing Your Word as the love letter that it is to me.

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LOMMOY – Less Of Me More of You