Gevurah of Tiferet
For compassion to be effective and healthy it needs to be disciplined and focused. It requires discretion both to whom you express compassion, and in the measure of the compassion itself. It is recognizing when compassion should be expressed and when it should be withheld or limited. Discipline in compassion is knowing that being truly compassionate sometimes requires withholding compassion. Because compassion is not an expression of the bestower's needs but a response to the recipient's needs. Am I more compassionate with strangers than with close ones? If yes, why? Is the compassion coming from guilt? Does my compassion for others compromise my own needs? Am I helping others at the expense of helping myself? Perhaps the contrary is the case: Does my compassion for my family and close ones overshadow others needs? Is my compassion impulsive and careless? Do I assess the measure of compassion necessary for a given situation? Is it commensurate with the recipient's needs? Can I possibly be hurting him with my compassion? Does my compassion overwhelm others? Is it respectful? Do I give too much or too little? Do others take advantage of my compassionate nature? When I see a needy person do I impetuously express compassion out of guilt or pity without any discretion? Do I commit the "crime" of compassion by helping him with something harmful (give him money to buy a harmful substance etc.)? Do I apply myself to determine this person's needs and help him in the best way possible?
Exercise for the day: Express your compassion in a focused and constructive manner by addressing someone's specific needs.
Change comes to those who are willing to put in hard work and surrender all to Yah.
Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
#leviticus 17:12 #achareimot
Leviticus 17:10-14 says that none of God's people are allowed to eat blood. Does that mean we can't eat a rare steak?
No, it doesn't. Let me explain...
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#leviticus 17:3-5 is a prohibition of sacrifice away from the Temple/Tabernacle, not of the slaughter of everyday meat animals. While in the wilderness, all animals had to be slaughtered at the Tabernacle, but once Israel entered the Promised Land, they could resume slaughtering animals for meat wherever they lived. The Wilderness was a training period in which God worked to break the bad habits the people had learned from Mesopotamia and Egypt.
#achareimot
Making plans is one thing, but carrying them out consistently, day after day, is quite another. It takes some self control, but it also takes wisdom, to make sure our method isn't ridiculous, causing us more trouble than it's worth. Good mentors really help with this, so let's talk about that today. (This is a picture of my mom and son, when he was little.) https://archive.aweber.com/awlist6425868/Ivz9E
In the last comic I brought up the 4 commands given to the new converts by the Jerusalem council. There was a challenge given to my statements around it that brought up that Paul did away with those commands in 1 Corinthians 8. Paul talks about how that meat sacrificed to idols really isn't anything because those idols aren't anything. That we should only not eat it if we are going to cause someone else to stumble.
However, that isn't where Paul finishes his thoughts on the subject. If we move forward to chapter 10, Paul explicitly states to NOT eat that meat if we know that it has been sacrificed to idols. Because it has been sacrificed to demons, and you cannot take part of demons and Christ at the same time.
I have pointed out in several comics over the years, context is everything. One big issue with using Paul to say that this, or any command, is no longer valid or not valid for Gentiles is it takes Paul out of context with the rest of Scripture. Many, including myself several years ago, read the New Testament without any knowledge of what the Old Testament says. We read the NT without any context. One HUGE key of context that is missing is Deuteronomy 13. In that chapter, God gives the instructions on how to know if someone is a false prophet.
"3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him"
Many look at the first two verses that talk of the signs and wonders, but God also gives us further detail in these verses above. Anyone that takes us away from keeping God's commands, that is a false prophet. If Paul was teaching against God's commands, Paul would be a false prophet. However, we know Paul isn't a false prophet as have Scripture to let us know Paul isn't speaking against God's commands. Paul was accused of the teaching the same thing during his time, but that account was settled in Acts 21:17-23 and shown to be a false accusation.
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"When I shall say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall be no more remembered, but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it."
Eze 33
"All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."
Eze 18
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