Our L_RD Yeshua spoke these words to HIS disciples. HE was speaking of love, mercy and grace.
This morning, as I was thinking of the passing of my fourth anniversary of my Yom Choofsha (Day of Freedom in Hebrew), I thought of the nasty person I left to his own devices. The bagad (treacherous one in Hebrew) lives the life of a pharisee. He wrote a song about one - he thought it was about his boss, but he was writing it about himself. How interesting that we see our own sins so easily in others.
Yeshua came to give us love, mercy and grace. We deserve death. That does not change.
Yet pharisees somehow believe that love, mercy and grace stops after it is given to them. The bagad is full of wrath, judgment and condemnation for others. He despises homosexuals, hoping they will be subject to eternal damnation. He despises me, and all women, believing they should be punished for his mother's lack. He honestly thinks he is the mouthpiece of the Father.
He IS the mouthpiece of the father. The father of lies, wrath, judgment, legalism. He is the pharisee who misrepresents a good, kind, merciful, LOVING GOD to the rest of the world. I have come to understand my Savior's wrath towards such deceit and treachery. If the bagad has changed, it is good. The fires of hell are not something I would wish upon anyone, even the bagad. But in his self-righteousness, I doubt that he has changed. He tries so very hard to be someone he is not. The appearance of a good, loving, self-sacrificing Christian. But his heart is black and murderous, full of rage and self-focus. I am so grateful, L_RD, to be free of his oppressive tyranny.
Thank you, my Beloved Savior, for Your love, mercy and grace. And yes, as YOU have given me, may I give to others. It is difficult to give to those like the bagad, yet YOUR love, mercy and grace are the same for him as they are for all. It is YOU in me that allows me to love, for I could never do that of my own will. THAT is a good and awesome realization!
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