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ACCOUNT- ABLE

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Author:

Mike, a faithful Today’s Word reader, reminded me that I have not sent the usual end-of-year reminder (appeal) for support.  I kind of thought I mentioned it, and I don’t like asking, but maybe he’s right and you didn’t see it.

Well, before you give, let’s review how donations made to At God’s Table were used in 2009:

  • $49,549 – financial support to TW readers and ministries; travel and expenses for my seminars, classes, and missions work.  This is OUTSTANDING!  :)
  • $1,974 – books, resources, materials and etc. to keep all this writing going
  • $1,232 – computer related stuff, software, website hosting, email delivery service, etc.
  • $2,745 – Credit card processing fees, bank fees, currency exchanges
  • $1,995 – professional services for accounting, taxes, website posting, etc.
  • $1,536 – IRS and State of Florida related licenses, tax filings, 501(c)3 stuff
  • $1,904 – office supplies, ink, paper, postage, etc.
  • $1,620 – cell phone and office phone
  • $1,044 – fuel
  • $3,000 – my salary

A quick note about my salary: You already know I don’t write TW for the money.  I told you earlier this year that the school I teach at had to cut back expenses, including my salary.  Your donations to ATG this year helped me personally to pay some bills.  Thank you for helping me.

And thanks to all of you for your faithful support!  You are the reason all this is working and we have a community that cares.  I love each of you and hope that one day we can have a great big celebration for everyone.

If you decide you’d like to make a last minute 2009 donation, click here to donate online.

Or mail a check to:

At God’s Table
15000 Thoroughbred Lane
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PS – I just posted 6 hours of audio re-examining The Beatitudes from the perspective of Yeshua’s 1st century Jewish audience.  Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

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A New Year’s Resolution

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Author:

Let your way of life be free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” Hebrews 13:5

Content – How’s it working out for you?  Has it been a tough year?  Have you struggled?  I have.  Maybe most of us have.  We all know economic woes, but in the long run, those don’t really matter too much, do they?  The things that really bother us are usually far more personal than our money.  In fact, if money is so personal in your life that it rises to the top of the list, then it’s probably time to read this verse again.  The real point of this verse is contentment.  That’s the biggest struggle for most of us.  We are a long way away from the prayer of the sages: “Lord, make my heart so malleable that I am ready and willing to accept whatever You provide for me.”  We need to learn contentment.  I suppose that process is very much the same as the one which says, “And He learned obedience through suffering” (Hebrews 5:8).

Frankly, contentment is impossible unless I trust the Lord.  That’s why the author of Hebrews points us toward His faithfulness.  How can I be content if I think contentment is about anything except His faithfulness?  If my contentment rests on any other foundation, I will be disappointed, won’t I?  This is a good time to reflect on the truth that whatever the world provides, it can repossess (with interest).  A life built on sand is a life built on people, possessions and power.  It’s wonderful when you have these things but they are merely blessings of His grace.  In the end, life must be built on something more solid than blessings.  The rock-bottom of contentment is the fact that He will not forsake us, even when everything else seems to evaporate.

The Greek verb here is arkeo.  It is essentially the expression of being satisfied with the provision of God.  “My grace is sufficient” is exactly the same concept (and word).  God provides.  How He provides and what He provides is not my concern.  My concern is simply that He does provide and I am called to rest in that truth.  The real character of my life is reflected in the foundation of my rest.  May I be restless to do His will – and to rest in Him.  This is the sacred balance: that His purpose becomes my driving force and His character becomes my contentment.  The entire message of Scripture can be read in these words:  May I find rest in You, O Lord.

Do you need a New Year’s resolution worth pursuing?  Try this:  Rest, O my soul, in the graciousness of God.

Topical Index:  rest, contentment, arkeo, Hebrews 13:5

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Prayer Request

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | Author:

From: Truthful Kindness <truthfulkindness@sbcglobal.net>

My Request: PRAYER for healing or extra endurance:

(( For two years I have not been able to consistently attend any church or

synagogue, so you folks ARE my community, even tho I have not actually

posted here for many months. ))  Please don’t take the following as

complaints; it is meant as background info for prayer.

My babesia count (that’s the first tick-borne disease that we are attacking)

has continued to steadily decrease.  My specialist says there are few

babesia left (the smallest amount measurable) but those few are

well-entrenched & unless we kill them they will just start reproducing again

-with extra resistance.  My “natural-killer cells” have increased (up from 6

to 20, out of a possible 300, & I must have a minimum of 60 before I can

lower meds & count on the contribution of those natural killer cells to

fight these “bugs”).  I can’t complain too much since they’ve flourished

undiagnosed for over 30 yrs.

Daytime pain is tolerable but by afternoon/evening I’m not coping very well,

& hanging over the vomit bucket almost every night, in agony until whenever

I am able to go to sleep.  It is not unusual for pain to wake me and prevent

sleep for most of the night.  Some days my total food intake is an egg in

the morning, two teaspoons of cottage cheese for lunch, & a piece of fruit

with two 1″ gluten-free cookies for dinner -the crispiness of both seems to

help them stay down even tho it’s late in the day.  Yes, I am taking the

proper supplements, and have tried many herbal teas to help with the nausea.

Everything tastes like acidic metal, including my saliva and bottled water.

Before the doctor even suggested that we do this testing, & more than a year

before diagnosis, God made it very clear that I had some hard times ahead of

me, that I was “doing good”, and that my body is “perfect”.  It was also

clear that “perfect” is NOT perfect to work for me, but it IS perfect to

glorify Him.  And that’s a good thing, not a bad thing; I want to glorify

Him in any way possible!  Those were the most exciting moments of my entire

life -but I had no idea how much I would need the clear message &

encouragement in the coming years.  (Because even tho it doesn’t feel like I

am DOING anything except doing a wonderful job of being very sick for a very

very long time without committing suicide — obviously my body must be

somehow glorifying Him or He would not have said that.)

But now I’m getting really really tired.  Please … I don’t need “fixed”.

I don’t need suggestions (I’m sure I’ve heard them all) or even very much

encouraging email or phone contact (I don’t have the energy to read it & am

not answering the phone).  I need two or more gathered together, agreeing

with my request for healing or extra endurance!  Please don’t minimize this

contribution but please please take the time to follow-thru; it is not the

minimal but the GREATEST power we have, and that is my request.  (And if a

particular time can be arranged, then I can ask other people for prayer at

the same time.)

-Shalom

-Truthful L Kindness & Blessing, the wheelchair Service Dog

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A High Priest

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | Author:

Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control – for Aaron had let them get out of control . . .   Exodus 32:25

Out Of Control – It was a sad day for Israel.  Moses was up on the mountain with God, receiving the summary of God’s constitution for the governance of His people.  In his absence, these recently-liberated slaves demanded that Aaron produce a physical representation of God.  Aaron succumbs to their request and the golden calf is fabricated.  When Moses discovers the idolatry, terrible consequences result.  The text tells us that the people entered into pagan fertility cult practices in their revelry.  There is little doubt that their “worship” involved sexual activity, the same sort of activity that God absolutely condemned in the Canaanite religion.  God’s judgment was swift.  Thousands died.  But amazingly, Aaron did not.  There is something very odd about this because it is Aaron who actually shoulders the blame for the actions of the people.  Aaron let them “run wild.”  He actively participated in the idolatry.  But instead of dying with the rest, he is forgiven and elevated to the office of high priest.  How can this be?  In an age when Christians routinely shoot their wounded, what can we learn from this incident?

Two lessons emerge from the treatment of Aaron.  The first is obvious.  God is full of mercy and grace.  Those who repented, including Aaron, were spared and reinstated into a relationship with YHWH.  Of course, forgiveness was not automatic.  Confession (something Aaron struggled to do) and repentance were absolutely necessary.  In addition, even after repentance and forgiveness, the relationship with YHWH changed.  Read the story again.  Following this incident, the presence of God remains outside the camp until the completion of the Tabernacle.  The people recognize this breach.  They are allowed to experience the grief that follows infidelity until the pain of separation is indelibly impressed.  Nevertheless, this event demonstrates God’s amazing grace.

But what about Aaron the high priest?  It seems to me that this incident underlines the problem of sin, even in the high priest.  Aaron is not the holiest of men, chosen by God because of his blameless righteousness.  In fact, Aaron is a moral failure just like the rest of us.  He knows what it means to deny the Lord.  He knows what it means to lie about his complicity.  He knows what it means to stand before God by grace alone.  When God chooses Aaron for the task of high priest, God makes it abundantly clear that this high priest can’t save anyone, not even himself.

And that points us forward to another high priest, a high priest who does not come from the line of Aaron, who is not from the tribe of Levi and whose standing is of the order of Melchizedek – a different order entirely.  Yeshua shouldn’t even be a high priest, according to the requirement of Levi.  But He is, by another means.  Nevertheless, there is something that connects these two high priests.  They both know temptation.  Yeshua is not insulated or immune from the very temptations that lead us astray.  He knows Aaron’s failure, just as He knows mine.  But He didn’t let the people run wild.  He didn’t fall into sin as the order of Levi did.  He knows what it means to struggle with human self-will, but He isn’t part of that choice.  His is the true priesthood of grace.

Aaron points.  Yeshua delivers.

Topical Index:  high priest, Aaron, Exodus 32:25, Hebrews 4:15

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Saying Goodbye

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | Author:

“and you shall not glean your vineyard and you shall not gather what has been left of your vineyard: you shall leave them to the poor and the alien; I am YHWH your Elohim.” Leviticus 19:10

Poor – We glean.  We reap.  We take everything we can get.  Capitalism without holiness results in wrath.  It pollutes the earth and the people on the earth.  Just as Leviticus instructs us that the manifestation of holiness within the family results in protection and provision, so it instructs us that societal holiness cares for the poor and the stranger.  But when the society gleans everything it can, some are turned away empty-handed.  There is no holiness in accumulation without conscience.

Haiti is a place of death – slow or swift, it doesn’t matter much.  97% of the water will make you sick.  Diarrhea is the most common cause of infant death.  Malnutrition and starvation take their toll.  One in five children die before the age of six.  Twenty percent of the population has tuberculosis.  In ten years, Haiti will be a mass grave.  The world has abandoned Haiti.  It has nothing for the world to glean.  It is filled with the poor – the ani – the oppressed, destitute and destroyed.

Three years ago I met these children.  When I took their pictures, I was saying goodbye.  Some are already dead.  The world doesn’t care about this harvest.  What does the manifestation of holiness look like here?  How many presents were under their tree?

Want to make a difference to real people like this?  Talk to Scott.

scottmandl@aol.com

Executive Director of Christian Flights International, a reader of Today’s Word and the man who introduced me to these wonderful children in Ranquitte, Haiti.

Topical Index:  ani, Haiti, holiness, poor, Leviticus 19:10

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Alien Nation

Monday, December 28th, 2009 | Author:

“You must be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.” Leviticus 19:2


Must Be Holy – The Bible is the story of God’s confrontation with His created world.  You cannot expect to read the text without being challenged, convicted and concerned.  Yes, it contains words of comfort.  Yes, it contains promises of blessing.  Yes, it contains the outline of redemption.  But at the core, the Bible is a book about a Holy God confronting unholy men.  There is a good reason to fear this book.  There is also a good reason to be driven to embrace it.  Both reasons are about holiness.

Before we make the mistake of thinking that holiness is about personal purity, spiritual maturity and an apprehension of the beatific vision, let’s remove our thoughts from that Greek model of individual ascension to the divine and consider what holiness implies in Hebrew.  First, holiness is not really a commandment.  It is a description of those who are Kingdom-conscious citizens.  That’s why the Hebrew text uses the words qedshim tihyu.  You are holy, in the sense that you must be holy in order to be part of God’s Kingdom.  The crucial term qedshim is an adjective.  It describes the quality of those who are God’s children.  How did we obtain this quality?  Not by anything we did at all.  We were set apart by God for this purpose.  Holiness is granted to us, not achieved by us.

Does this allow us to do anything we want?  Absolutely not!  In fact, in Hebrew thought, holiness is manifest in actions.  That’s why if you continue to read Leviticus 19 you will find instructions about honoring parents, keeping Sabbath, agriculture, business practices, charity, wages and justice in society.  Each and every one of these instructions is about the manifestation of holiness.  In other words, holiness is not about my personal, inner spiritual state nor my attainment of glorious perfection.  It is about us in community.  There is no Hebrew concept of holiness apart from all of us together.  The “you” in this verse is plural!  The manifestation of holiness is always among others.

Christians often speak of being set apart.  That is the essential idea of holiness.  But we don’t take the next step.  Holiness is being set apart from the world according to God’s instructions for living.  In other words, holiness is living life together as God directs.  You cannot be holy by living apart according to your own definition.  That would be like entering the court of the king but refusing to follow his protocol.  That is the mark of an insurgent, not a citizen.  Yeshua endorsed this distinction by quoting Leviticus 19:2 in Matthew 5:48.  His followers are to embrace the same manifestations of holiness in community that are described in Leviticus.  If they do not, how can they claim to be “set apart” by God?

Difference is the essence of holiness. God doesn’t do things the way the world does things.  His people don’t do things the way the world does things.  Wherever we find those who claim to be followers but who are not different, we find confusion, ignorance or rebellion.  Powerlessness, despair, discouragement, anxiety and insufficiency accompany this sad state.  The adjective qedshim cannot be applied.

Are we different?  Are you (singular) a participant in a community (plural) of manifest difference?  Is holiness tangible action among us?  Do you think of holiness the way God thinks of holiness, or are you still trapped in your Greek individualism?

Topical Index:  holy, Leviticus 19:2, Matthew 5:48, qedshim tihyu

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2010: Year of the Blog

Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | Author:

Just a brief comment on comments.  I was glad to see so many people provide blogs in the last few days.  My hope is that a lot more readers will chose to make comments in 2010.  Please don’t think that just because you don’t want to enter into a scholarly conversation you don’t have anything to contribute.  Blogs are for your experiences, feelings, thoughts, questions and anything else that will help all of us know more about everything we seek to understand.

So, make 2010 the year of the blog.

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Straight-line Depreciation

Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | Author:

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21

Foolish Heart – Are you sitting down?  You might want to.  As we approach the end of this year (according to the pagan calendar), I see some connections between almost 2000 years of Christian teaching and the current condition of our world.  They aren’t connections that I want to see.  Perhaps you will be able to convince me that I am mistaken.  But like Paul, I am concerned.  Some time ago I stood at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and wept.  I went there to pray, but there were no words to speak.  I was simply crushed by the enormous despair in our world.  I don’t mean that I saw despair in those who were at the Wall.  They celebrated God.  What struck me was the awareness that the Church I know has contributed a great deal to this sense of hopelessness, in spite of all its words to the contrary.  It is simply not possible to continue to refuse to honor God as God, the way in which He reveals Himself, and expect to walk away unscathed.  So, here are some straight-line depreciation ideas to consider.  These things bother me.  Maybe I’m wrong about them, but if I’m not, what does that mean for you and me in the next year?

  1. For centuries the Church taught that women were not equal with men.  Of course, theologians claimed ontological equality (they were created equal), but in practice they treated women as weaker, more easily seduced, less disciplined, less capable of leadership or other roles within the Body.  These men claimed God divinely relegated women to submission to their husbands as a result of the Fall.  It doesn’t really matter what theological manipulations were needed to promote such an idea.  The result has been a general disregard for the full humanity of women, encouraged by the culture and tacitly endorsed by the Church.  Recently a survey shows that violence toward women in the media is up more than 100%.  The world is filled with sex slavery, pornography, abuse, rape and gender bias.  I believe this is a straight-line result of a failure to honor God’s Word in Genesis and to give Him thanks for His good creation when it comes to women.  The Church refuses to acknowledge that God made women priests because they impose Greek thinking on the text.  This is a colossal failure to read the text with Hebrew eyes.  Today, this issue stands at the forefront of the Christian worldview as the greatest oppression since the Inquisition.  Until it is confronted as hypocrisy, arrogance and sin, the Church has nothing to say to women, and they should refuse to listen!
  2. The early church fathers introduced the idea of the “new” Israel, a spiritual replacement of God’s elect people.  Political opportunity, theological hubris, anti-Semitism and other forces conspired to promote what is now the standard, unquestioned theological position of every Protestant denomination and the Catholic Church.  This declaration marginalized the people of Israel, obscured or denied their unique place in God’s government and shifted the outlook of the Church from a Hebraic to a Greek worldview.  The result has been more than one Holocaust.  Centuries of disregard for God’s people led to the systematic expunging of everything Jewish from Christian thinking.  There is a straight-line between this failure to honor God as He revealed Himself and the current collapse of any significant influence of the Church on culture.  Look around you.  Has the Church stood in solidarity with its Jewish brothers?  Has the Church done anything of real significance to stem the tide of immoral, heretical, apostate behavior even in its own ranks?  Is the Church anything more than a “religious” reflection of cultural values?  What can we say to the world when we are responsible for centuries of hatred, violence and rejection of God’s people and God’s word given to His people?  Why doesn’t the Church have the power of Acts coursing through its veins?  Maybe it’s because we are no longer grafted into Israel.
  3. Christianity today is the syncretism of political, economic, social and epistemological views that are not based in the Word of God.  Replacement theology did more than promote the supremacy of the Church.  It broke the continuity of the culture of God’s people.  By the end of the second century, the beliefs and practices of Yeshua and his disciples had been eliminated from the newly invented religion of Christianity.  Perhaps the reason we read the book of Acts and wonder why our churches do not exhibit such power and  persuasion has more to do with our systematic denial of the Hebraic worldview than anything else.  We Christians are the apostates.  We left the God of Israel behind in our pursuit of power, programs and promises.  We converted Israel’s faith into a religion of our own making.  Of course, most Christian believers today have no idea of the heretical history behind their form of worship, but this much they do know:  Something is terribly wrong.  Something vital is missing.  There is a straight-line between the ignorance, denial and rejection of a Torah-based lifestyle and the insipid, vacuous, frantic romanticism of Christians.  A Jew without Torah is obsolete.  A Christian without Torah is a hypocrite.

It’s worth noting that Paul uses the singular “foolish heart” in this verse.  We would have expected “hearts,” one for each person.  But Paul tells us that they participated in one morally mistaken discernment.  They were as one in their vain attempt to replace the God of Scripture with their own invention.  I wonder if we Christians haven’t arrived at the same singular place.

Most people can’t remember more than three important things at the same time, so we will stop here.  Paul laid a challenge before the Roman followers of Yeshua in his proclamation of the deterioration of their culture.  That challenge was simple:  Will you follow the pathway of those who deny the God of Israel as He revealed Himself, who refuse to thank Him for His choice of one people to bring all the world to His feet, who pretend that their endless speculations are a substitute for His revealed truth OR will you acknowledge Him as He is, honor Him and thank Him by repenting of your hubris and returning to His revealed ways?

In the next few days before we mark one more pagan festival of a new year, perhaps these three straight-line consequences will cause you to reconsider how you will live.  Women, the Church and the Torah community – just these three.  It’s probably enough.

Topical Index:  women, church, Torah, foolish heart, Romans 1:21

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Loose Torah

Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | Author:

Loose Torah

Some time ago I posed a question to Rabbi Bob Gorelik about keeping Sabbath.  The question was:  “I often have to travel to teach, and many times I end up with schedules that require me to fly on Sabbath.  How can I resolve this with the instructions about the Sabbath?”

I think Bob’s reply will help many of us see the Torah from a different perspective.  Bob said:

One, the Lord has gifted you to teach.  And, since He is the one who “keeps opening doors” – you should walk through them (to whatever extent that your finances and other obligations allow).  Let the Lord use you as He determines.  Understanding this in your heart is VERY important, but that’s the simple part.

Two, the Torah is not a rigid system of rules and regulations.  It is a guideline for living and how we apply this guideline to our life can often be very tricky.  It would be simple if we were required to choose between a good and an evil – but that is often not the case.  Rather, we are more frequently required to make a choice between the better of two goods and/or the lesser of two evils – that is why it’s single-most important mediating principal is love.

Take your situation – the Lord opens the door for you to teach. You feel compelled to go. But, the venue is in California – a place that you need to fly to.  Depending on your teaching schedule (and your other work and/or other family obligations) – it may or may not be possible to avoid flying on the Sabbath.  And, since you are also at the mercy of the airlines and their schedule (something that you obviously have no control over) you may be required to compromise one principle (observing the Sabbath) in order to fulfill another (communicating the message that God has put on your heart).

Christians tend to have an “all or nothing” view of the Torah based on a misunderstanding of texts like James 2:10, “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” – so the issue is not hard to resolve at all.  Since the Law has been “abolished” you have no obligation to observe it – therefore traveling on the Sabbath is not an issue so don’t worry about it.

But, it obviously troubles you, so the best thing to do it to try to resolve it the way that Jews do – by constantly trying to strike a balance between what we do, and why we do it.  In other words, faced with your choices, what is the most loving thing to do?  The question is not always easy to answer and it may not always be possible to answer it the same way twice – because every set of circumstances are different.

With a Greek world-view the dilemma that you face is virtually impossible to resolve. But with a Jewish world-view, it is possible to make a choice between these two equally good, but competing principles in a way that preserves the integrity of God’s word and the character of His calling upon your life.

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Intentional Righteousness

Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | Author:

But we should not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap, if we do not faint. Galatians 6:9


In Due Time – We want to do good.  It’s part of the natural expression of Christ within.  Goodness is an essential attribute of the character of God, so those who have His spirit are going to gravitate toward doing good.  But it is worthwhile to examine this natural tendency.  A little reflection will help us steer in God’s direction sooner rather than later.

What does it mean to do good?  The first thing we must recognize from a biblical perspective is that God determines what is good.  All that is noble and right and just in our eyes is not necessarily good in His eyes.  Outward appearances may not contain the spirit of righteousness.  No matter how many of the commandments we keep, there is still the question of motivation.  We may still go away sorrowful because we have much at stake.  To do good is first to enter into a serious examination of the heart.  A fearless moral inventory is itself “doing good” because it prepares us for intentional righteousness.  This is step number one.

Having examined our true motives, having put aside those subtle self-satisfying agendas, having recognized when our willingness is actually disguised pride, we are ready for the second step:  defining what is good.  Of course, the definition of goodness cannot come from our own understanding.  Our understanding is the problem.  It is filled with second thoughts, personal justifications and religious rationalizations.  We must turn to an outside authority – to the instructions from a reliable, trustworthy source.  We could start with Torah.  After all, God knows what is good.  Why not listen to Him?  To fulfill the mitzvot of Torah is doing good.  Each and every one of them renews the spirit within and brings the delight of honoring the Father.  Wonderfully, God has provided daily instructions.  You might not be able to feed the poor in Haiti today.  You might not be able to sit with a cancer victim in the hospital tonight.  But you can follow Torah and in doing so, you bring intentional righteousness into the world.  And God smiles.

Finally, for now, we must recognize that a great deal of “good” things are granted that status by human systems.  So, it’s good to go to church.  It’s good to tithe.  It’s good to be civil toward others.  And while there is nothing essentially wrong with any of these actions (and hundreds of others), they might not be what the Bible considers good.  You see, the Bible puts emphasis on God’s evaluation of goodness.  It is not interested in the contemporary version of the smoke of offerings.  God wants humble hearts and obedient hands, lips that serve and minds that delight in Him.  Besides, how can upholding “good” traditions that violate Torah instructions be good in God’s eyes?  Biblical descriptions of doing good are pretty clear.  Substitutions are usually not allowed.

“In due time” says Paul.  The Greek is a bit odd.  Kairon idio is literally “in the pregnant moment of its own.”  This is also essential to meditating on doing good, for kairon idio is unpredictable.  “In due time” is impossible to plan.  It is God’s intervening moment, not our flow-chart conclusion.  When do we stop doing good?  When God arrives to redirect our efforts.  Until then, we work as if He will never arrive and we wait as if He will come in the next second.

Doing good is the call of every follower.  It is the role of God’s priest in the world of darkness.  The particulars of the assignment have been articulated by the Sender.  The mission is clear.  Every action counts.  The only task ahead is to not grow weary until kairon idio arrives.

Topical Index:  in due time, kairon idio, doing good, Torah, Galatians 6:9

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