Ancient Path of Obedience: I was blind and now I see

Photo by Leigh (Kauai)

Ancient Path of Obedience

I was blind and now I see

Leigh Caruthers

I was blind and now I see. 

Words have never struck home more than these when I started on this narrow path.  As a new follower of the ancient path of obedience I found myself having to unlearn what I had been told my entire life. It was hard to realize I had the answers the entire time within scripture yet I had not truly dug in. What changed in my life to make me search for Yahuah? A life full of wrong turns and wrong ways. I always felt unworthy and unloved. None of that was the truth. I was blind to my own self worth in Yahuah (YHVH) and in the body of Yahusha (Messiah).  My husband and myself both had great paying jobs.  We could travel and spend money on most anything we wanted yet we both struggled with finding happiness. We couldn't even find it within the walls of the local mega church with all the bells and whistles even though they put on a great concert every week. We wanted opened eyes and filled hearts.  I prayed and prayed and soon the Father spoke softly in my ear, seek me. 

Jeremiah 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Seek me

So I began in the beginning. As I read slowly and meticulously through Genesis I realized how alive and beautiful the word of Yahuah is. He planned everything in exquisite detail specifically to benefit and provide for us. How had I missed him? How had I missed Messiah in all of it? Yahuah and Yahusha were there together in the beginning. 

Genesis 1:26  And Elohiym said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Taken from E-Sword : word for "image" or "likeness" H1823 in BDB

Elohiym said, "Let us make man in our image."

Looking into the word "image" or "likeness"  in E-Sword in Hebrew script דּמוּת

(demûth) and we also see in the paleo Hebrew script listed above for the word. What is interesting about Paleo Hebrew is the word picture that emerges using those ancient paleo Hebrew letters tells us a deeper story. 

In Hebrew we read right to left. The first letter is a Dalet which can mean door, move or entrance. Next letter is a Mem which means water, chaos, blood. Followed by a Vav which is Nail , Secure, Add/and. Ending with a Tav which means cross, mark/sign, covenant. 

What I read (which may differ from your interpretation) is: Our entrance secured through the covenant of blood. A clear explanation of what our Messiah provides for us in the very word "image" or "likeness". To have eyes that see we must dig deeper. A great place to start is with the language that Yahuah wrote the 10 commandments (Devariym/words of the covenant) with his very finger. It was not English!! 

From there the word literally exploded in my mind. What was happening? I was seeing things I never saw before. The scales were falling from my eyes. I could not get enough of the word and I read all I could in every free moment. I started watching teachings and listening to recorded scripture while working. It was on all the time in the background of my daily life when I was not able to sit and read. Then I stumbled across a channel that opened my eyes wider than I thought possible. They were reading out of a Cepher and used the names of Yahuah and Yahusha. I wanted to know the name that Messiah heard when He was living. I didn't want a substitute name that He literally never heard nor did the word (or letter J) exist in His time. I wanted to call on His name or as closely to it as I could get. If the names had been substituted then what else was changed? Then like a flood I realized everything I had been taught was wrong. I was going to have to unlearn and relearn everything. More importantly I realized to be able to see we have to walk away from the world. 

1John 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Love not the world

I prayed on these words. What does this mean for us? How do we change? I found all the answers in scripture as I continued through the words given by Yahuah. I found myself wondering what do I really give to Yahuah in return for all that he provides for me and has given to me? Was my devotion to Yahuah as strong as his commitment to me? Messiah suffered a torturous death. For me and you. Do we not owe him our obedience to the Father that he came to bring us home to? Are we so selfish and self centered to honestly think he suffered in ways we cannot understand just so we can live a life he would never have lived? Aren't we to walk our lives as closely to how he walked and lived while in the flesh. I had so many questions. One undeniable truth is that He sent his son, Yahusha, to save the world from sin before there was even a world. Yahusha is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. How could I have ever questioned my worth to Yahuah and Yahusha? 

Revelation 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the cepher of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Revelation 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear.

It was ordained before we even existed strictly to save us. He didn't just send him, he condemned him to die the death of a criminal on a cross for all of mankind and as we learned above looking at the Paleo the cross or Tav is also a covenant with us. By his stripes we are healed. The weight of those words had not ever hit me the way they now do. Was everything nailed to the cross like we have been taught? Not only was I blind but deaf prior to this walk because the Father does speak through the words of scripture. We just choose to block out what we don't want to deal with. 

The world tells us :

• Stick to the path of least resistance ("wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction.") 
• Go with the flow. 
• Don't rock the boat. 
• Fit in. 

All lies by the adversary that wants us to be complacent in our walk. Lukewarm. If we want to know him we have to willingly give up our lives to him. A vast majority of what we participate in the world is of the world and not anything that is of Yahuah. This includes all the "holi days" and celebrations of the world. If the entire world participates in it then it is of the world. To be set apart is exactly what it sounds like. Set apart. 

1Peter 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

1Peter 2:10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of Elohiym: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

A word of caution. Being a set apart peculiar people is not easy. It can make you feel lonely. The truth is you are stepping away from the world and closer to Yahuah and that is beautiful! Do not let your mind trick you into thinking that you need anything or anyone other than Yahuah! 

Psalms 73:26  My flesh and my heart fails: but Elohiym is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

What are the first steps towards the ancient path of obedience? 

• Pray
• Seek Yahuah with all your heart.
• Pray
• Read all of the scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
• Pray
• Keep Sabbath
• Pray

These are the first steps onto the narrow path that leads to the narrow gate and into the Father's house. Join me next time as I discuss what keeping Shabbat is all about and why it is one of the first steps to leave the world and step onto the ancient path of obedience.   

Blessings and Shalom!

Photo by Leigh (Stones River Murfreesboro TN)