Sharing with you these thoughts. Do you often have phrases pop into your mind, unbidden? I do, and this morning it was once again this acronym that I’ve crafted for the word atonement. It says in the Bible/Torah – in the books we call the old testament, that the high priest used various things to atone for man’s sins before YHWH, not the least of which was the sacrificial lamb that was sacrificed. In the books of the Bible we call the new testament, we are told that Yahshua (Jesus) was our once for all atonement for all mankind’s sins (all who were, who are and who shall be in that spatial thing we call time.)
When I look at the word atonement I see what I have written as an acronym for the word. I see that Yahshua was the offering that we might once again become one as it was meant to be.
Hebrews 2:17: For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people.
Are we at-one as it was meant to be; returned to the beginning of the creation of man where he (generically speaking) walked in the garden with YHWH in the early evening hours, fellowshipping, at one without divisiveness, without strife, without any of this rampage of emotions that ravish the individual and ultimately are tearing the world apart? I know the answer before the question is asked – no. Why is it so, if Yahshua at-oned for us; why do we still struggle, fight and kill – and worst of all, in the name of God? How can we so take the name of the Lord thy God in vain – to even suggest that He would behave as we behave. Is this the end result of Yahshua’s death, that he died for no purpose; that his death was in vain.
What’s wrong; where did we and do we continue to go wrong? I think it begins in the internal of me, and of you. The war that rages within for the flesh to be number one, to be right, to have the upper hand; to be in control and to rule and to have the final say in all matters. If that is the reason then what is the solution?
Surrender you say? No way; that’s the cowards way, and “I am strong; I’m no coward, not a weakling!” But I am not asking me to surrender to you, to bow down to you. I am asking me to surrender all of these things that rage within me, to turn them over to He who Created me that He might cast them as far as the east is from the west and then even further beyond that – that I might once again return to the Hand that crafted me, to be used…not for me to use what he has given me for my own selfish purpose….but to allow Him to use me for His Purpose – a purpose intended before I was even crafted in my mother’s wound.
Is this then the atonement that paid the price; to bring me back to being one as it was meant to be with the Father. And if I do this, and you do this….ad infinitum….then we all indeed become One as it was Me(a)nt to be.
Food for thought for me as I enter into this gift of 24 hours – this present of today.
May we become that at-one-ment - that One. For the Lord says, Hear O Israel, the Lord, the Lord thy God is one. And if He is One and we are made in His image, are we not One. I so say, be it so.
