A Quiet Place

~8/2/2012~

The view that I have from the barn.

Every night for a little over a week I have been going outside just before I head off to bed. I go out to my family's unfinished barn. Climb up the ladder, walk across the flat roof and plop myself down at the other side of the roof, where I can look out at the field next to our property. It's my time that I get just to think, unwind and most of all spend quality time with my Heavenly Father. It's amazing how much it helps, after stress filled day, to sit back and look at the starry night sky and just let it all go. Most of all there are so few distractions in quiet country night, making it great for talking to the one that made us all.
  I don't know if you (the one reading this) has ever done what I described. Maybe you can't, don't have the time or just can't seem to shut off that brain of yours. It makes sense, since most of us are constantly bombarded with everything imaginable; people talking, the next world crisis, drama at work and all those shiny man-made devices that are just so tempting. I mean, it's a wonder that we can get sort of peace from this world, maybe some can't. But despite all those distractions in this world, there are places that still hang on to that quiet, pure form of living. These places, though sometimes hard to find, can always be found if you search hard enough.
  How can you find one of these places? Well, how can you do anything without trying? You see, these places aren't locations that you can just go to. They are more of the place that you find yourself when you are looking up at the stars and that feeling of how small you really are. Or looking at a beautiful sunset (kind of oxymoron there, because what sunset isn't beautiful) and wonder how our Creator as the ability to make it so no two sunsets are alike. For it me it's when I'm by myself with Yahuwah, in nature just studying His creation. That is where I feel closest to Him. Where I can sometimes even hear His voice in the wind or in the cricket's song. And when I feel the most at peace.
   To sum it up... The only way I know how to find these places is by believing and following the example  of the One that spoke these words...

Joh 14:27 “Peace I leave with you – My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

Yahushua, the Son of the Creator of all...

HalleluYAH!!!

Do Not Fear

~8/1/2012~


I have been thinking about fear and what causes certain fears lately. Every one of us has our own fears. Some of them are shared by many, some seem like you are the only one that has them. But is that true? Could it be that there is something that only one individual fears? Or is it that we all are just hiding our fears from each other; making it so we are unable to relate to one another and help to overcome these fears?
   It makes sense... that we, faulty humanity, are all afraid of giving up our weaknesses. All it would take is someone to use those fears against you and then where would we be? Broken. Hurt. Scared. All three emotions that none of us truly want to feel. But we do, all the time.
   That's why I say it takes great courage to put yourself out there. To tell someone what makes you tremble and shake. It is like putting a sword in their hands; giving them the power and the choice to protect you with it or stab you in the heart (graphic I know, but it feels like that sometimes).
   So how do we know if someone is trustworthy to carry this hypothetical sword? How many hoops will they have to jump through before you can trust them? And how many hoops will you have to jump before you can earn their trust? We of course do this to test if their worthy, but why after all of that it's never enough? Why do we keep building our walls higher and thicker, so the ones we care about can't get over or break through? Is it because we are afraid of being hurt? That seems to be the usual excuse. We say we don't want to be hurt, but when we push people we end up getting hurt as well. Confusing right? I think so...
   Sadly, I have really no answer to these question. I am, like everyone else, broken. I am also afraid that if I shared my weaknesses with others I will get hurt. Maybe that's why we hurt others, because we are too busy worrying about whether they will hurt us we never stop to think if they might be in as much pain as we are... I don't know.
   All I know is that my Heavenly Father tells me about fear...

Deu 3:22  "Do not fear them, for יהוה your Elohim Himself fights for you."
Deu 31:6 “Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is יהוה your Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you.” 
Deu 31:8 “And it is יהוה who is going before you, He Himself is with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged.” 
Isa 41:10 "Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not look around, for I am your Elohim. I shall strengthen you, I shall also help you, I shall also uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness."

Do not fear... Not a request by our creator, but a command. A command that is impossible without Him...


Psa 34:4 I sought יהוה, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. 
Psa 27:1 יהוה is my light and my deliverance; Whom should I fear? יהוה is the refuge of my life; Whom should I dread?
Psa 56:3-4 In the day I am afraid, I trust in You. In Elohim, whose Word I praise, In Elohim I have trusted; I do not fear; What could flesh do to me?

Do not fear my friends, for if you are with Yahuwah... There is no one that can hurt you. He is completely trustworthy.


HalleluYAH!!!