9.23.25 ~ Now I See

Good morning!

Life is not like a deck of cards where you’re stuck with the hand that you’ve been dealt. We’re not victims of circumstances. We are the controllers of our destiny or is God? Yes.

Last night's zoom call: Strong and courageous/rak chazak amats, living in the fear of God not the fear of the enemy or living on the see-saw of life with God (Deut. 31)

It's the time of the fall feast season: Yom Teruah, the 10 days of awe, Yom Kippur, the five days in preparation for the Feast of Tabernacle (an eight day celebration). All of this has been proceeded with 30 days of preparation during the sixth month on God‘s prophetic calendar and prior to that was the 50 days of counting towards the first fruits of the oil; and prior of that was 50 days of counting towards the first fruit of the wine; and prior to that was counting towards the 50 days of the first fruits of the wheat; and prior to that was counting the 50 days from the first fruits of the barley; and prior to that was Passover, the time of a new beginning on God's prophetic calendar (Ex. 12:1).

According to Exodus 12:1 Passover is the beginning of a new year. After you get done with finishing the fall feast season and the completion of God‘s prophetic year, what will be different in your life? This is a good time to pause and reflect :-)

Pause...

Pause some more...

Reflect. That's right...reflect deeper :-)

When it's all over, you’ll wake up the next morning and go to work. You'll do your thing. What will be new? The sun will rise. The sun will set exactly as it’s been doing every year of your life. What really separates one year from another or one day from another?? For most of us it’s like Groundhog Day. It’s just a repeat of the same thing day after day stuck in this time warp where you keep living the same boring day over and over and over again. You’re stuck on that day.  Another year of God‘s prophetic calendar, another day of his mercy being new. it’s a déjà vu all over again.

So here’s the question that enquiring minds want to ask: "do you see life as this constant circle round and round we go over and over again like a merry-go-round? Or do you see it as a straight line, this one continuum, a bump here a turn there until you come to the end of the line? So how do you see it? More importantly, how does God see it?

Several months ago, we did a study in the torah portion, Lech Lecha/go to yourself, regarding Abraham and his call to leave The UR of CHALDEES. Going back in time, to a later time in history, many many years my dad asked me one day, Alan I’m going to go look for God. Do you want to go with me? I said yes. The looming question I still ask myself is,, "Did I find God? Or did I start the journey of discovering myself in relationship to the Creator?"

We live in a society where people are always trying to discover themselves. What does it mean to find myself? I remember a story told by a man named Jackie Mason. He said, "Life is to know who you are". Or to give us a fairly close rendition of his exact words, "There was a time that I didn’t know who I was. So I went to a psychiatrist. He took a look at me and right away he said, 'this is not you.'So I said 'if this is not me, who is it?' He said, I don’t know either. So I said then what do I need you for? He said to find out who you are, and together we’re going to look for the real you. So I said to myself, if I don’t know who I am, how will I know who to look for? And even if I find me, how will I know it’s me? Besides, if you want to look for me, why do I need him? I could look for myself. I can take my friends. They at least know where I was. Then I said to myself, what if I find the real me and I find that he’s even worse than me? Why do I need him? I don’t make enough for myself. I need a partner now. Back when I was struggling, I would’ve been glad to find anybody. But now I’m doing well. Why should I look for him? If he’s lost, let him look for me. But this psychiatrist said, no, no, no, no, no. The search for the real you will have to continue and that will be $500. So I said to myself if this is not the real me, why should I give him $500? I’ll look for the real me, let him pay the $500. What if I find the real me and he doesn’t think it’s worth $500? I said to myself, for all I know, the real me might be seeing a different psychiatrist altogether. Maybe he’s a psychiatrist himself. I have thought to myself, wouldn’t it be funny if you are the real me and you owe me $500? I said, I’ll tell you what, doctor. I’ll charge you $300 and we’ll call it even.

Three days ago we started a study on seeing, yet not seeing.

Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land— “the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders. “Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day. (Deut. 29:2-4)

Like us, they saw everything physically, but it wasn't until that day, when they made the covenantal commitment to yield everything to their Creator that they really saw what they were supposed to see (Deut. 27:9,10). Do you see?

Another prophetic year on God's calendar will come and go. What will you see? Will you just attend and see all that was displayed or will you see? It all depends on what you are looking for.

Chag sameach/happy feast season!

Shalom,
Alan