The Exodus

I'm going to reminisce today.  Many of the remnant are feeling an urgency to come out from among "them" and be separate.  The attachment to "things" is waning, even the acceptance of failed relationships are coming to peaceful closure.  Change is coming for many.  For some it will be a simple spiritual change, as in holiday celebrations and feast observance.  For others, it will be employment, education, or health care, and for some it will even result in geographical relocation.

I've experienced all those changes in the past twenty years of following Messiah, and most of these major changes occurred through this season.  Every area of change has brought me to a more literal faith in the Scriptural way of life, which has brought me closer to YHWH, but it's also taken me farther from the cultural norm of our society.  Every change has loosened a cultural bondage . . . freed me from the rule of figurative Egypt.

I celebrate the Feast days of YHWH.  I'm sure I don't do them all properly, but I've laid down tradition and hopefully YHWH is pleased in my attempt to honor Him in the days He has appointed.  This employment deal is awesome.  I actually make a living using the talents YHWH gave me to begin with.  I was asked recently the difference between talents and spiritual gifts. Here is my understanding in my life.  Back in High School typing class, within the first quarter I was typing over 80 words a minute, on a manual Royal.  Admittedly, it was an old typewriter, but the budget only allowed for two electric typewriters at the time.  Those old manuals simply did not wear out.  Now, back to my talent.  My typing speed is still quite fast, that's a talent much needed by this writer.  The spiritual gift on the other hand, is from the Holy Spirit living in me, which provides the discernment and wisdom for the words I share in books and articles.

I also have a business of natural health and beauty products that has blossomed from my own personal use to an actual business.  In following Messiah, I walked away from allopathic health care altogether.

Although many of these things were already in place and practice to a degree in my life, the big change came nine years ago, two days after Passover, when I was called to relocate.  YHWH had shown me a pillar of fire, but I had to wait . . . until the vision.  The vision was clear, the destination unknown.  By three o'clock that afternoon, there was a for sale sign in the yard, the car packed, and I was heading down the high way in the direction that I'd seen the pillar.  It was very exciting and peaceful at the same time.  To be eating matzo on this journey, while embarking upon the unknown, was so much more than an emotional contentedness   I knew, the changes YHWH had made in me, and I knew more change was coming.  In this, I also knew, it is still truly possible to live Scripture!