As followers of Yeshua, we must be “theocratic” in our focus, as our Lord himself was. He taught us to pray: “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10); he instructed us to “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” (Matt. 6:33), and gravely warned that those who practice lawlessness (i.e., ἀνομία) are cut off from the hope of God (Matt. 7:23). Indeed God’s curse is on all those who seek to eat from the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” that is, those who define good and evil in their own terms, disregarding the revelation of Torah, and who desire to do only what they think is right “in their own eyes.” In the end, every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess the truth about Reality, friends… That day is coming soon.
Hebrew Lesson:
In order to say, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done” we must let go of our own agenda; our ego must be deposed from its petty little kingdom… Likewise, we can’t say, “Come, Lord Jesus” by putting our fear first, or by otherwise demanding that our life should center on our own personal “advent.” No, you must consciously choose to live in exile to this world (Gal. 6:14). How can we ever expect the LORD to live out His life through us if we do not genuinely offer our lives to Him? And yet this is exactly the problem of the ego…
A principle of spiritual life is that we descend in order to ascend, or the “the way up is the way down.” As Yeshua said, “Whoever would be first among you must be slave of all” (Mark 10:44). Becoming nothing (i.e., ayin) in this world is the condition for seeing something in the world to come. But we become nothing by trusting in the miracle, not by trying to efface ourselves… This is not another venture of the ego. Life in the Spirit means trusting that God will do within you what you cannot do for yourself… We can only take hold of what God has done for us by “letting go” of our own devices (Phil. 2:13). When we really let go and trust, we will become nothing (i.e., klume: כְּלוּם), carried by the Torah of the Spirit of life. The way is not trying but trusting; not struggling but resting; not of clinging to life, but of letting go…
This is another example of the difficulty of truly trusting God for the miracle, of genuinely receiving the miracle… Some people scorn the idea of “easy believism,” though of course there is nothing at all “easy” about exercising true faith in the LORD and living the truth in our lives. We need the miracle; we need grace from heaven to impart real passion for us to walk according to God’s heart. Amen.