Welcome to Teshuvah Elul 23

Welcome to Teshuvah Elul 23

Elul twenty three

Counting the days

Until Yom Teruah

What does the blast say

 

Wake up oh sleeper

Don’t be found sleeping

Prepare your field and plant

Or you’ll not be reaping

We are in the fields

When the trump blows

Summoning the workers

With a shout, it is time to go

 

The seed will produce

After its own kind

The preparation and planting

Has a purpose in time

 

© laurette laster

 

What do we turn or shuv away from? Pride, independence, ego and arrogance, of thinking we somehow have been good enough to obtain this on our own.  The scripture tells us God gives grace to the humble but He vehemently resists the proud.

What do we Teshuvah or return to? Knowing and understanding that in ourselves we do not have the ability to be godly. We realize and admit, that it is in Him and through Him we live and move and have our being. Paul goes on to say as some of your poets have said, we are His offspring. Acts 17:28

Remember, the bible says we are His workmanship or masterpiece. The Greek word for masterpiece or workmanship is Poiéma where we get the work poem from.

The Greek word for “WORKMANSHIP” is POIEMA which gives us our English words POEM and POETRY. Poiema means “something made” and in context is something made by God Himself.

The seasons of our LORD are His Mo’edim – Holy convocations. The LORD is drawing us to Him.

Isaiah 55:6 Call upon The Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

As I meditate this scripture there are nuggets of deep truth that we do well to know and understand. This verse expressly speaks of appointments and appointed times or seasons. I cannot find something if I am not looking. I will not look if I haven’t seen or heard that it is there. I cannot speak to someone who is out of my range of communication.

It is the same in seed time and harvest. I do not plant out of season and I do not harvest if I didn’t plant. We must be able to rightly divide then decide to go after, to return (Teshuvah) to the heart of The Lord with our whole hearts.

The word integrity comes from the root work integer. The definition of integer is any whole number; not a fraction or a decimal. It isn’t a fraction or a part or a percentage. It is a whole number. The LORD wants our whole heart not a part of percentage. Our soul may be fractured or infractions, but we know He is the healer and restorer of our souls. To enable The LORD to heal our soul we must come and return and give Him our heart.

Think about the game of hide and go seek. This is Teshuvah. He isn’t hiding from us, He is signaling to us. The Lord is wooing us into interaction of seeking Him. Each prompting leads us into truth and away from harm.

He allows us to go away to hunger and thirst and then call out to Him. Jesus said in the beatitudes; blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteous for they shall be filled.

“Shall” this seems to be a theme with our Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Hosea 6:1, 3

Come let us return (Teshuvah) unto The LORD: for He has torn us and he will heal us; He has smitten us and He will bind us

Then shall we know if we follow on to know The LORD, His going forth is prepared as the morning. He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and the former rain unto the earth.

 

Don’t miss your appointment, Teshuvah my favorite time of the year.

God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.

Until next time, thank you for listening with me. Laurette