Today is probably one of the saddest days of my life. I've been made to feel low because of the heartbreak my Yasharalyt brother is suffering.
I keep thinking about all of the people that have been proven false or that have just simply given up. But this, this is just too much. I see now that it is possible for even those we hold in the highest esteem to slip and fall.
I'm not a gossip or business spreader. What I am is a sister truly concerned and distraught by a message I received today. It's not my place to share the contents, if this brother sent that post to you, then you know of whom I speak.
But this is not why I am posting this on my blog today. I am posting because I am saddened by the prospect that we seem to get so caught up in being Yasharal that sometimes we forget that we are fallible, flesh and blood, human. We stink. We are rotten to the core. In fact YHUH says that we are wicked and deceitful in our inner man.
Now, please don't get me wrong, I'm not calling out anyone's faults. However we ALL have them. And it is foolish to think we do not.
How do we know if we've been pardoned from all the chata we've committed? I tell you how. We seek YHUH in all humility and turn completely away from chata, seek His face, and ask Him to pardon us. Then and only then does He pardon us. And He says that when we do this our iniquities are removed from us. BUT, if we return to that chata, then our righteousness is removed. We have to trust that YHUH does exactly as He says. And yes, often we are haunted by our past, by the things we did when before we sought YHUH. Thats a good thing. If our chata is ever before us, it makes it
easier for us to not do that again.
Some would think this means that we haven't been forgiven, but that's not the truth. Daud said his
iniquities are ALWAYS before him.. This means that he lives with what he has done against YHUH each and every day. It's on his mind and in his heart. He knows that's he's lived a foul and filthy existence, and he realizes that nothing HE does could ever make it right. However, he trusted in YHUH blindly, and believed in what YHUH spoke to his ancestors about being chosen and he clung to YHUHs promises.
But, As usual I digress. The purpose of this post is what is important when one of our sisters or brothers "slip." What are our responsibilities to that person? What is expected of us?
In Yaqab's letter to the Yasharalyt/Yahudym in the dispersion, he admonishes them to turn a brother or sister who has strayed back to YHUH and he also says that if any brother or sister who is suffering kakopatheo (hardships, trouble, afflictions, sufferings) or astheneo (disease, impotence, weakness, sickness), we who are not afflicted should bring that person to the elders as they did in the days of old so that they could be anointed and prayed for (Uyaqra 4, Malakym Alaph 17, Husha 5, Yashayahu 30, 58, Yaramyahu 29) and that the prayers of the RIGHTEOUS would avail. In Yaramyahu 9 YHUH told the Prophet to bring forth the women who sing and wail sings of mourning and lamentation because death (spiritual death) has entered into our high places and cut off our children.
But, where are our elders? Where are our mourning women? It would seem as if there aren't any to be found. Too many false teachers, speakers, and witnesses. Too many silly maidens out here following after these false teachers and crooked men. Too many women being those spoken of in Yashayahu 3. Too many men leading when they aren't truly called by YHUH.
It is because of this that Yasharal continues to suffer, and our men and our women are falling off. YHUH said that He has saved a remnant. That means a very small left over portion. Know what this means? It means that not all who proclaim the truth are living it. Not all who say His name belong to Him.
We need to understand this, and seek out the ancient paths and stop trying to live For YHUH with mindsets of the world in which we live. We also need to pray for those that have been proven true. We need to hold up their arms so that they do not grow weary. We need to stop giving them reason to feel anguish, and lift them up. There's truly so few of them. We need to show YHUH and those that are truly called by Him that we appreciate the Barakah that we receive because of His anointed. And we need to stop acting like every man with a beard and tassels is anointed of YHUH.
When we seek YHUH, He will reveal those whim He has called. And when He leads us to them, we will know them by their fruit.
Shalum alykham
Tamar
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