Thursday, June 23, 2011

Life and Godliness


God's power has given us everything we need for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness. By these he has given us valuable and superlative great promises, so that through them you might come to share in God's nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world. II Peter 1:3

To escape the world's corruption, I know I must remove myself at times. Remove myself from instances which I will become carried away from what I know YWHW wants for me. I know others may not understand my distance, my extremisms and my neglect. I don't always know what is best. I think God plants those thoughts in my mind. I am not listening to supernatural voices but that small conscience that the all mighty placed there almost 50 years ago. Oh yes, that was a long time ago and I didn't always listen to the voice.

I didn't always study from a translated version of the Bible which uses Hebrew names specifically for YWHW and Yeshua. I was one who accepted the KJV for the dedication inside its cover. That King James (or the people around him) wanted to give the English speaker a version of the all mightly's words for all the common man to know. I don't want to force someone to accept a very Hebrew view of the Bible as being the best translation. I strive only to understand my Master, Salvation and our Father in the most natural way.

I am tossed on every side. Who is right? What is wrong? Am I wrong? Did I understand it correctly? Did they translated it correctly? Do I know actually what Adonai wants from me? Did I truly obey his commands all of these years? Where does he want me to turn? What does he want me to accept in my future and from those around me? Doubt? Oh, yes doubt compasses me from every direction. I know others have doubts and grief from the way they receive information, love, criticisms and attention. I struggle at the smallest moment of strife when its bony finger it pointed at me. What does he want me to let go of and remember not forever?

For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection and brotherly affection with love. For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. (And) Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble. Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah. II Peter 1 : 5-11.

I want to hear the Master and the Messiah, say of me in that Great Day, "see my daughter in whom I am well pleased."


Picture is from Wikipedia, on the Hebrew alphabet, beginning of Joshua 1.