Category: Walk in Truth

Passion or Zeal?

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Passion in the absence of love is dangerous. Passion in and of itself is one of the most powerful human drives, it can be blinding and deceiving. Passion without respect and love amounts to lust, and the object of our lust is never fully human in our own eyes.

We can easily see how devastating this is in dealing with sexuality, but how about religion? Lust-driven religion causes a person to see other human beings as potential conquests, as sources of gratification — it is a dehumanizing force.  We see the fruit of it in Islam, where we find the subjugation of women and moving non-believers (or simply those who disagree on points of doctrine) to sub-human status in actions and in minds.  It is about lust, not about zeal.

Zeal should be a holy thing, zeal should be driven by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Zeal should be a protective force instead of a violating force.  Zeal should inspire loyalty, zeal should be purifying, zeal should desire good for men and not evil. Zeal should only seek to desire the destruction of true evil, not of mere opposition.

Many who claim to have zeal for Messiah and God’s holy word, have only a lust for knowledge and conquest. Messiah and scripture without love gives one neither Messiah nor God’s truth. It is an illusion. Love tempers passion into zeal, whereas the lack of love warps passion into lust.

When we deny our lusts we can attain the status of the Bride of Messiah. He does not desire a lustful Bride, but one pure and spotless. The Bride, like her Bridegroom, would sooner die than allow someone to languish in sin. Her passionate zeal is the cause of weeping and prayer and worship, she does not leave a trail of wounded people in her wake. She behaves like a Queen, full of grace. She is virginal in her intentions towards others, not bent on domination, she has no eye for conquest. She administrates the Word of her Bridegroom, his Law (Torah in Hebrew), in love and not as a source of destructive pride.

We must always ask ourselves, am I zealous or am I lustful? Am I a Bride in training or a Harlot by trade?

Where does your loyalty lie?

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Sometimes we will go through a season where we feel we have screwed up too badly and YHVH is too disgusted with us to love us anymore. When I cannot seem to convince myself otherwise, I take another path — I tell myself that even if He has abandoned me, He is still worthy of my service for life, and that it is an honor and a privilege to be able to keep His commandments — that even if I am too wrong for Him, they are right for me.

As I endure in His service, despite my doubts and fears, my doubts and fears melt away and realize that He was never gone from me, but that I had turned away from Him for a while. The lack of His presence is a test — will we remain faithful or will we turn away from Him?

he will remain faithful Bible verse 2 Tim 2:11-13

Where does your loyalty lie?

In many ways, this boils down to a test of endurance and loyalty. In your heart of hearts, in the depth of your being — if He responded to your rebellion by abandoning you, does your heart still long to worship Him, or were you simply in it for yourself? Time and time again, that is the question we must answer — who is this all about? If it is about us, and not about the loyalty He deserves, we will turn away, if only in our hearts.

Moses faced this trial when he struck the rock to bring forth water.  He struck it when he was commanded to speak to it, and claimed responsibility for the miracle of water. He was denied entrance to the promised land. At this point, after all his years of faithful service, he had a choice — turn his back on Elohim or decide that no matter what, YHVH was worth serving and His commandments worth obeying.

He endured. He is our example.

3 Bible Theories That Make No Sense

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A Facebook friend brought up the topic of how some Bible theories make no sense at all.  I am of the opinion that YHVH did not create various races, He just created varieties.  Else, He would have given Adam two brothers.

I have no Biblical proof of my theory, but some people sure do try to twist the Scriptures to justify their beliefs.  I don’t care what color the people in the Bible were — has no bearing on our lives in Him whatsoever. Whether they were black, white or somewhere in between is utterly irrelevant. But the people who do care sure come up with some crazy stories!

1. The “Mark of Cain” was that his skin was made black.

A white man was telling a black man that Cain’s mark was to be made black. The black man, in a mock accent, said, “Ah guess we sho’ is good at treadin’ water!”

Noah was descended from Seth (Genesis 5), so obviously  Cain’s line was wiped out in the flood. I’m thinking somebody didn’t check his Bible before coming up with that wild idea.

Um …

2. Ham married a black woman, it showed how wicked he was to mongrelize the races.

Oh, really?  And where do you find that in the Bible?  Has it escaped your notice that skin color isn’t mentioned at all until the Song of Songs?

OK, just for argument’s sake, let’s pretend she did have dark skin. Are you trying to tell me that Noah didn’t notice that his son’s wife was black? He was a righteous man — if interracial marriage was a sin then he wouldn’t have put up with that!

And why on earth would YHVH go out of His way to preserve a sinful union when He was destroying the whole world because of sin? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose entirely? So if she was black, then evidently YHVH had no problem with that. If she wasn’t black — if no one on the ark was black, then black people didn’t come from that.

Um……

and this one is the best…

3. The white people are all descended from the Nephilim, demonic giants.

Giants?! Then why are white people, on average, shorter than black people? What on earth happened to us?

Being white is recessive. So then, even if we white, “demonic giants” bred with “real humans” who are black, wouldn’t our nephilim mongrel offspring simply have ended up as lighter-skinned blacks … but still taller than people who are black?

Why on earth am I only 5’3″?

I have been robbed of my tall white heritage somehow, and I demand answers!