Elul 18
Grieving the Ruach
“And do not grieve the Set-apart Spirit of
Elohim ...” (Eph 4:30 ISR)
There is nothing that
grieves the heart of a parent more than when their child misbehaves and
disobeys, especially when that child knows
better, and is well aware of the consequences for their transgression. To openly disregard and disobey rules and
instructions is nothing more than rebellion, and it is heart breaking to
realize that our children have so little respect for our authority. And yet, most of us at some point during our
youth, have all done similar things, whether it was sneaking out at night,
smoking cigarettes with the neighbor kid, or even stealing candy from the local
Woolworth’s store. Does that justify the
wrongdoing? Of course not. However, when our children do similar acts of
disobedience, we can now understand the emotional turmoil we put our parents
through.
Our Creator is also
our Father, and He has laid out for us through the pages of Scripture His
rules, regulations and instructions in moral and righteous living. His Word is His will. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to
recognize that when we are diligent to obey His Word, His Torah, we are walking
in His will. Neither does it take a 160
IQ to figure out that when we break off on a rabbit trail that is completely in
opposition to what Torah teaches us, we are no
longer in His will. We have, in
essence, ‘snuck out at night, and we are meeting the neighbor kids to engage in
nefarious activity’.
Where do we get the
idea that our insubordination and rebellion does not grieve our Father, and His
Ruach, His Holy Spirit? The Ruach is the Spirit of life, He is the
breath that we draw every minute of every day (Gen 7:22). Elohim fills
us with His Spirit, enabling us to learn all that we must know, in order to
walk this Torah walk (Acts 2:4). The Ruach is our teacher (Luke 12:12), our
guide (John 16:13), our memory bank (John 14:26), always leading us and
pointing us in the direction of Torah.
The opposite of kadosh – holy – is common, casual, and
trivial. When we make the decision to
treat the kadosh Torah of our Elohim,
the divine instructions in moral and righteous living, as something common and
casual, and not worth adhering to, we have successfully mounted an insurrection
against our Creator, and brought pain and grief to our Father.
As we rapidly
approach the fall feast days of our Elohim, can we turn our eyes inward in
self-examination, looking honestly and realistically at areas where we may have
caused grief to our Abba? And let us
repent, do teshuvah, turning away
with the resolve to never, ever, do
this again.
Amein …
“In His love and in His compassion He redeemed
them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. But they
REBELLED AND GRIEVED HIS SET-APART SPIRIT, so He turned against them as an enemy,
and He fought against them.” (Isa 63:9-10 ISR,
emphasis mine)
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