Our Outside Comes From Our Inside

( YHWH blesses )

So many times it is easy to get caught up in the world around me and what is happening that I don't see what is going on with me.

I think back through my day. Did I lose my temper? Was I unkind, judgmental, ridiculing, sarcastic, cruel, or uncaring? Even just once throughout the day? Did I put myself above others; even my loved ones even just one time today?

It is so easy to look at our short comings and think/say, “I am only human”; but, if if look at the Word closely, I see that all things are possible in Him. Do I really think YAH would give me commands I could not possibly keep? Of course not. He provides all that any of us need.

My heart is full of desires and from those desires comes thoughts, speech and actions. Do I stop and think about my actions? Do I search my heart to see what is most important to me? What is first in my life? Do I even really pay attention or consider what the Word says concerning my words and deeds?

(Jas 1:21-27) Therefore put away all filthiness and overflow of evil and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your lives. And become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror, for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like. But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is worthless. Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

(2Co 10:3-6) For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh. For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds, overthrowing reasoning’s and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah, and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

What about the times I am among strangers; those I know we probably will never see again? How do I treat them? What about the driver that cuts me off or almost hits us? Do I in my fear and anger give them what I think they deserve? Like a shaking fist, angry look, angry words out the window honking the car horn? Am I inconsiderate to those I don't know in the store because my needs are more important than theirs could possibly be? Do these people not count?

Again, what does the Word tell us?

(Mar 12:29-31) And יהושע (Yahushua) answered him, "The first of all the commands is, ‘Hear, O Yisra’ĕl, יהוה (YHWH) our Elohim, יהוה is one. ‘And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first command. "And the second, like it, is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no other command greater than these."

(1Co 13:4-7) Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil, does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth, it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.

If I truly wish to obey my Father and follow after His Son, I will have to apply His Word to my life. It is simply not enough to read it, to know it; but, I must also live it. I can not hope to do this on my own or by walking in the flesh. I can only do it in and through YAH as I walk in the Spirit. So I shall talk to Him today. I will ask Him to show me as He sees me. I will ask Him for His ways and as I submit to Him in obedience, He is faithful and true to enable me to please Him in thought, word and action.

YAH bless you and keep you.

(Psalm 39:1) I have said,"Let me guard my ways Against sinning with my tongue; Let me guard my mouth with a muzzle, While the wrongdoer is before me."