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Nisan 21, 5769/April 15, 2009
Counting Of The Omer
Day 7 (At Sunset)
Today Is day 7 In The Omer
Today's Devotional is For Day 7 Wednesday
The day goes from Sunset to Sunset.
The Omer is counted in the evening
Today is seven days
which are one week in the Omer.
Hayom shiv'ah yamim
shehaym shavuah echad la-omer.
For some Fun Counting the Omer charts
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Week 1 Attribute 1 - Love/Ahava And Kindess/Chesed
Sitting At The Feet Of Our Master Yeshua
1 Corinthians 13:1-14
I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.
I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith - enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing.
I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful, not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not gloat over other people's sins but takes its delight in the truth.
Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.
Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass. For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial; but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways.
For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.
1Co 13:13 But for now, three things last - trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love. Complete Jewish Bible Translation
Complete Jewish New Testament Commentary David H Stern*
13:1-14:1a This hymn, which can stand alone yet fits its context perfectly, is the great "love chapter," just as Messianic Jews 11 is the great "faith chapter" and chapter 15 below the great "resurrection chapter." Love is "the best way of all" (12:31) because it "fulfills the entire Torah" (Ro 13:8-10, Ga 5:14; see also Mt 22:34-40, Ya 2:8). The word in Greek for "love" is "agapeĈ," defined in the New Testament (by passages such as this chapter, Yo 3:16, 17:23-26 and 1 Yn 2:5-4:21) as giving of and from oneself; love expresses itself in acts of benevolence, kindness and mercy in which heart, mind and will are united because they are motivated and empowered by God. Such love goes beyond what one can generate of oneself, because it has its origin in God. When such love is experienced by one person from another, the experience is of God's love channeled through that other.
Some Christian commentators stress the supposed uniqueness and superiority of agapeĈ over the ahavah ("love") and chesed ("loving-kindness") of the Tanakh. But this is surely a false distinction, for the love of God is not different now from what it was then; nor is it more available now than before. This false differentiation has opened the way for Jewish critics such as Leo Baeck (in The Essence of Judaism) to present New Testament religion as romantic, based on mere feelings. Rather, the New Testament expositions of agapeĈ clarify the nature of the very ahavah and chesed spoken of in the Tanakh. [3].
YHWH/G-d is the Same Yesterday, Today and Forever! Yeshua is His Love Gift To The World.
Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.
Joh 15:8 This is how my Father is glorified - in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.
Joh 15:9 "Just as my Father has loved me, I too have loved you; so stay in my love.
Joh 15:10 If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love - just as I have kept my Father's commands and stay in his love.
Joh 15:11 I have said this to you so that my joy may be in you, and your joy be complete.
Joh 15:12 "This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.
As Believers In Messiah Yeshua Our Master Can we show any less love for one another? Read John 17
Pray 1 Corinthians 13
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**ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR David H. Stern was born in Los Angeles in 1935, the great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University and was a professor at UCLA, mountain-climber, co-author of a book on surfing, and owner of health-food stores. In 1972, he came to believe in Yeshua as the Messiah, after which he received a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary and did graduate work at the University of Judaism. Dr. Stern taught Fuller Theological Seminary's first course in "Judaism and Christianity," organized Messianic Jewish conferences and leaders' meetings, and was an officer of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. Dr. Stern is the author of Messianic Jewish Manifesto, which outlines the destiny, identity, history, theology and program of today's Messianic Jewish movement. He also wrote Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians. It consists of excerpts from the former book selected for Christians to whom the Jewishness of the Gospel is an unfamiliar idea. His Jewish New Testament, which has been incorporated into the Complete Jewish Bible, is the basis for its companion volume, the Jewish New Testament Commentary. This book discusses Jewish issues raised in the New Testament -- questions Jews have about Yeshua, the New Testament and Christianity; questions Christians have about Judaism and the Jewish roots their faith; and questions Messianic Jews have about their own identity and role.
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Let us search our hearts as we prepare to recieve a refilling of His Ruach HaKodesh to prepare us for the times ahead. May Yeshua be glorified in all we say and do. Let us Walk In The Spirit Of The Torah Of Our Messiah
B'shem Yeshua HaMashiach
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Shalom In Yeshua
Scott & Deborah Brandt
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