CHESHVAN
9
To
Love Him
“And
now, Yisra’ĕl, what is יהוה your Elohim asking of you, but to fear יהוה your
Elohim, to walk in all His ways and to LOVE Him…” (Deu 10:12 ISR, emphasis mine)
There is a path of progression
that we follow in the above verse: we
first learn to respect, admire, stand in awe of, and reverentially fear our
Elohim for Who and What He is, the Creator of
everything. As we continue to recognize
and “fear” Him, we find ourselves walking in His ways, as opposed to our own.
The more familiar we become with His
ways, His divine instructions to us in righteous and moral living, the more we
recognize His love toward us, His
creation. With the arrival of this
revelation, comes the birth of our
love toward Him. Then this cycle will
repeat itself, gaining further strength, and overflowing to those around us.
“Beloved
ones, let us love one another, because love is of Elohim, and everyone who
loves has been born of Elohim, and knows Elohim. The one who does not love does not know
Elohim, for Elohim is love. By this the
love of Elohim was manifested in us, that Elohim has sent His only
brought-forth Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved Elohim,
but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering for our sins...
And we have known and believed the love that Elohim has for us. ELOHIM IS LOVE,
and he who stays in love stays in Elohim, and Elohim in him ... We love Him
because He FIRST loved us.” (1Joh
4:7-10, 16, 19 ISR, emphasis mine)
“I love
You, O יהוה, My strength.” (Ps 18:1 ISR)
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