CHESHVAN
17
To
DO
“…he will command … to DO …” (Gen 18:19
ISR, emphasis mine)
Daniel Webster gives
for the definitions of the word ‘do’, the following: “To perform; to
execute; to carry into effect; to exert labor or power for bringing any thing
to the state desired, or to completion; or to bring anything to pass; to
perform; to practice; to make or cause”[1]. To ‘do’ requires an action, a physical motion
of some kind, in order for us to accomplish the desired goal.
The Hebrew word that
has been translated as ‘do’ is the word ‛âśâh (Strong’s H6213) and is defined in basically the
same way as what we have from Mr. Webster.
What I found as interesting is the different places in Scripture that
this word appears. For an example, there
are several places in the first chapter of Genesis where this word is found,
culminating in Gen 2:2: “And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work
which He had done (‛âśâh), and He rested on the seventh day from all His
work which He had made (‛âśâh).” Even our Elohim was and is in action,
bringing to completion and fruition those events and promises that He had and
has ordained.
And
so it is also with us, those of us who profess to belong to the Elohim of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is by our
actions, the things that we do, that
we truly reveal who we belong to, whether it is our own self-sovereignty, or
walking in submission to our Creator, and His Torah. Just how loud are our lives proclaiming the
sovereignty of the El Elyon, the most
High Elohim?
“What good is it, my
brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is
such "faith" able to save him? … Indeed, just as the body without a spirit is dead, so too faith without
actions is dead.” (James
2:14, 26 CJB)
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