CHESHVAN
4
Am I
Included?
“And now, Yisra’ĕl …” (Deu 10:12)
The first name that appears on my birth
certificate, my driver’s license, and my passport is “Merete”, a name given to
me by my Danish parents. It is one of
the Danish equivalents of the English name “Margaret”, a name that is not uncommon. However, should someone yell out MAR-GA-RET
in a crowded room, I would very likely not
respond, as that is not who I am.
Our opening verse section of three words reveals
to us who is being addressed. Yisra’el was not only a man – originally named Jacob (see Gen
32:28) – not only the land of
Yisra’el (see Eze 20:38), but it is also the people, the nation, the natural-born first, and the adopted as well
(see Ex 2:25; Ex 12:49). It is to the people of Yisra’el that this passage of Scripture
is being addressed.
Does this include me, not a natural-born, but one
who strives to walk according to the instructions of Torah? Will I always be considered a ‘stranger’
within Yisra’el (Lev 19:34)? The Word of
my Elohim says different:
“Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenlies in Messiah, even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of
the world, that we should be set-apart and blameless before Him in love, having
previously ORDAINED US TO ADOPTION AS SONS through יהושע Messiah to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His
desire, to the praise of the esteem of His favour with which He favoured us in
the Beloved …” (Eph
1:3-6, emphasis mine. See also Rom
11::17)
‘Nuf said.
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