I feel as though I'm in this calm, simple world while everyone else is in their own complex universe, that when they collide it's a huge earth quake. I'm just sitting here, listening to so-and-so tell me why what they believe is right, then so-and-so's best friend over hears us and steps in with his opinion. Pretty soon it's just a big complex argument that I honestly am in awe of. I'm in awe that a human can take something so simple and turn it into something so complex. I'm in awe that we're even arguing about this.
There are so many different views from every single religion out there. All the different sects of each branch, each belief, each reason for this and that. It's complex . . . why can't our belief be simple? That question kills me every time I ask myself that. I ask my neighbor that question and they give me a complex answer. I ask my friend that question and they give me a complex answer. I ask my family that question and they give me a complex answer. I ask my mind that and it gives me a complex answer. I ask my heart that and it sinks in the sea of complexity. I ask God this and His answer is simple. His answer is always simple, I don't think He meant it to be hard for us to understand. We rely too much on what man says. Man makes things complex and that bothers the heck out of me! I can't stand it. I'm sure some of you are thinking, "So, Michaela, what makes you so different?" I previously wrote about trust. Go back to that post and you will find your answer. I don't trust anyone. I trust only in HaShem and I don't follow man - I follow Yeshua Hamashiach. How simple is that?
There is no man on this earth who can separate me from Yeshua - my salvation. There is no man on this earth who can separate me from HaShem - my creator, my God. Not even death can separate us. It's like a marriage, you love God so you WANT to follow His Torah which is like wedding vows! Its beautiful! These two are the only I will fully trust and follow. I cannot even trust myself with myself! I know I can trust the one who made me, with me. I know I can trust the one who died so I could live, with me. Anyone else? No. Absolutely not. Now some will call me a Jew - I follow Torah, oh no! Some will call me a christian - I'm one of those "jesus" people. Some will call me a Messianic - I'm in the middle.
I'm a Hebrew, an Israelite. I'm a follower of Yeshua and I don't know how to make that anymore clear. Any more simple.
I hope everyone who reads this sees the simplicity of God's love. That's what I see. I see that God loves me, so He gave me His Torah so that I might live a justly life knowing right and wrong. And by blessing me as I follow in His ways. I see that Yeshua died for my sins (Torahlessness) because we all screw up. No one can follow Torah to a T all the time. One is incomplete without the other.
Here's what I want anyone reading this to get out of my post:
religion is
1) complex
2) dead
3) man made - man trusting
faith & love is
1) simple
2) ALIVE!
3) trusting in God alone
Ephesians 3:16 - 19
I pray that from the treasures of his glory he will empower you with inner strength by his Spirit, so that the Messiah may live in your hearts through your trusting. Also I pray that you will be rooted and founded in love, so that you, with all God's people, will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height and depth of the Messiah's love,yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing, so that you will be filled with all the fullness of God.
