Maturing; I marvel now at the vast arrogance, vanity, and ignorance of humanity.
Humans are amazing creatures, yet prone to profound arrogance and self deception. No matter what your spiritual path to enlightenment you will not see the glory of THE LIGHT until you stop marveling at your own brilliance.
Rabbi Shaul said “When I am weak then he is strong”; Referring to Yeshua Messiah.
We walk into HIS light when we take our eyes off ourselves. We walk in the strength of our creator when we stop relying on our own, we see HIS light and insights in others when we see beyond ourselves and our own understandings.
We will only see the beauty and the glory-in the light of others about us, when we are no longer blinded by our own brilliance *.
For we are brilliant, we are glorious but only as reflections of our creator. He is glorious beyond our comprehension!
“The glory of God is man fully alive”.
St Irenaeus (130-202 AD The last known living connection with the Apostles.)
May you see yourself, as you truly are; in the glory and grace that is THE LIGHT of your creator. That you might become all he purposed for you to be!
Foot note: * At Sinai we see a radical re-calibration of social, political and religious institutions for all of humanity. These advanced through Torah and Israel. Rabbi Johnathan Sacks clearly explains the shift in understanding of the role of humankind to God delivered in theTorah:
“It is the people as a whole who are commanded to “be holy”, not just an elite, the priests. It is life itself that is to be sanctified…Holiness is to be made manifest in the way the nation makes its clothes and plants its fields, in the way justice is administered, workers are paid, and business conducted. The vulnerable-the deaf, the blind, the elderly, and the stranger- are to be afforded special protection. The whole of society is to be governed by love, without resentments or revenge.
What we witness here, in other words, is the radical democratization of holiness. All ancient societies had priests. We have encountered four instances in the Torah thus far of non- Israelite priests: Melchizedek, Abraham’s contemporary, described as a priest of God Most High; Potiphera, Joseph’s father in-law; the Egyptian priests as a whole; whose land Joseph did not nationalize; and Yitro, Moses Father-in-law Midianite priest.
The priesthood was not unique to Israel, and every where it was an elite. Here for the first time, we find a code of holiness directed to the people as a whole. We are called to be holy… The Torah’s revolution is the statement that not some, but all, humans share this dignity. Regardless of class color, culture, or creed, we are all in the image and likeness of God!”
Covenant & Conversation-Leviticus:the Book o Holiness: (Pg 283-284):
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ISBN 978-1-59264-022-5
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