Fear No Fear

(All scripture from Lexham English Bible, Copyright 2012 Logos Bible Software)

“And when he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were weary and dejected, like sheep that did not have a shepherd“

Matthew 9:36

Jesus is a compassionate person. He chose to love us and to go all the way for love before any of us were anything but an idea in the mind of the Father (Revelation 13:8). He came for the fallen when we were still fallen, not when we were seeking Him (Romans 5:10). When we were doing our own thing, getting our own food, making families, drinking water, doing our best, we were in great need. We just didn’t see it. We FELT it, but we didn’t see it. Jesus saw it. He saw us. He still sees us. He will never stop seeing us. But we still have those moments when we choose not to see Him. When we take our eyes off start doing it ourselves again. But we aren’t alone anymore. Ruach HaKodesh is there to point to Jesus, to point to our shepherd, and to make sure that we respond to the compassion Jesus has for us.

Jesus was going around teaching the people. Visiting their towns. Spending time in their synagogues. Going to where they were. Seeing how they lived. And calling them to a better place. For them to hear Him, they needed to be pointed His way. Ruach HaKodesh was part of that. He is still part of it, because we still needed to be pointed Jesus’ way. It doesn’t matter what we’re doing. It doesn’t matter what is going on. It doesn’t matter what the circumstance is or how everyone else is perceiving it. We need to be pointed to Jesus so that we can do what He is telling us and showing us to do. An example is no good if you’re not following it.

Ruach HaKodesh is with us. Living inside us. Available to us and speaking to us all day, all night, all year round. He never sleeps. He never takes a break. He never stops. Part of what He is doing all that time is pointing to Jesus. He is there with us where we are and pointing to the part of Jesus that is the solution we need. He is showing us Adonai’s point of view so that we can embrace it. Nothing is impossible as far as Adonai is concerned (Matthew 19:26). When we look at our lives the way that Adonai looks at our lives, WE won’t see anything impossible either. We’ll start seeing where Adonai needs to be. What He needs us to cooperate with. We’ll start seeing His position and letting Him be in it. If Adonai knows all things (1 John 3:20). If Adonai knows where things are going, what will happen (Isaiah 46:10). If Adonai has the solutions (2 Corinthians 1:20). If Adonai has all of that as His default point of view, His default knowledge base, then that is something worth trusting in. That is something getting aligned with. That is something worth KNOWING. From that place of wisdom, we could operate MUCH more effectively than operating on our own (James 1:5). Ruach HaKodesh helps us make those connections.

I’ve said it before, and I am sure it will come up again. When we practise listening and aligning with Adonai in the small things that don’t seem to matter at all, we will find it easy to turn over our big worries, our big situations, and our big battles. When calamity comes to town, it will be a burp. A nothing. We’ll automatically and with full trust turn to Adonai and ask what the play is. What the plan is. What our part is. We’ll do it believing we’ll get an answer because Adonai has been there for all the small things. We will have built up a relationship together, seeing Him care. Seeing Him interact. Seeing Him take the burden and give us so much more. Things that are so much better. He is a GOOD God. A GOOD Father. It cannot be said enough. This is the relationship worth having. This is the kind of interactive back and forth that we were meant to have with Adonai. This is who we can be: children with their Father. Connected. Loving. Together. This is the match Ruach HaKodesh is consistently making with us. This is what we are consistently being encouraged to participate in. Trust in Jesus. In everything. It is transformative. It will bring us into deeper worship. Deeper reliance. And deeper trust. It will be more than we can imagine and it will be worth every step we make hand in hand with Him. He IS the answer, but He is SO MUCH MORE. He is our FULFILLMENT. And we are hardwired as a species to want fulfillment.

Listen to the promptings of Ruach HaKodesh. Lean into the wisdom of Adonai. Let Him be what He is meant to be so that you can be who you are meant to be. Overcoming everything that is meant to bring you down. Simply by trusting in Jesus. He is the Way we are to live. He is TRUTH. And He brings us ever closer to the Father. This is what life can be. It’s not a holding pattern. It’s not a struggle. It’s a journey toward Him. The place where we have the journey is full of struggles, troubles, and resistance to the journey. But the journey itself is none of that. It is hand in hand, heart to heart. It is life. It is peace. It is HIM. Be a part of that. Choose to be a part of that. Every single day. It will NEVER be a regret.

Daily Affirmation of the Goodness of Elohim: Colossians 2:6

“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him” Jesus was given to us so that we would have a place to live. He is the shelter we need from the storms and conditions of this world. He is the food and the water we need to survive. He is an all-inclusive package. He literally fulfills every need we have or could ever have. Our part is to believe that promise. To trust in the promise. And to be obedient to Him. To choose to live in Him like we chose to accept Him as Lord and Saviour. You don’t accept a Lord and then do your own thing. That isn’t lordship. That’s roommateship. And it doesn’t work. Ruach HaKodesh was given to us to help explain to us what living in Jesus is all about. The New Testament is a guidebook to how to live in Jesus. Jesus spoke to the Twelve a lot (specially during their last supper) about what it is to live in Him. The tabernacle and the Law were set up to give us a picture of what it looks like to live in Him – both the method of how and the benefits of doing it. Almost everything we’ve ever been given from Adonai has to do with how to live in Jesus. Because it is so important, we’ve been given MANY tools to help us achieve it. To walk in it. To live in it. And not to miss out on all the BLESSING of abiding in Jesus. What a GOOD God!

Your Daily Confession of Elohim’s Goodness:

I taste and see that Yahweh is good; I am blessed because I take refuge in Him.

Psalm 34:8