The Beauty of Love! Yom Teruah 2024
Saints, today we begin Yom Teruah, The Feast of Trumpets, at sundown. The beauty of God's grace is so overwhelming in the relation to the Feasts that He has set out for His people, the timing and foreshadowing of Christ Jesus!
Yom Teruah is a beautiful time, signifying the blowing of the Trumpets, when the dead in Christ shall arise and be caught up, and those who are alive, will go be changed in the twinkling of the eye, as we put on the imperishable, PRAISE GOD!
It's not by our works that we earn salvation, only through the work of Christ Jesus on the Cross and His Resurrection, as we are crucified with Christ and Resurrected with Him! PRAISE GOD!
Today we were set to work out, and for the first time, I forgot to set the alarm. Thankfully, Rich woke up, but it was an hour later than our alarm time. Usually, I take a shower, do my morning routine, while Rich reads the Bible, and then we go off to our workout.
Rich was uncertain as what to do, thinking that we totally missed it. I said, "let's just go, now." I had no makeup, my hair a mess, but decided to put a hat on and go anyway. I tell you it was one of the greatest workouts. Listen, this was simply working out at the gym.
Imagine how much more it will be when the time arrives, at the blowing of the trumpet, when we see those who had been dead arisen to put on their glorified body, and we're changed in the twinkling of an eye! We won't have to worry about taking a shower to get ready, CHRIST HIMSELF WILL MAKE US READY!!! GLORY TO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine waking up every morning, getting straight out of bed, not having to bathe, brush your teeth, groom, and select your clothing. We don't have to worry about going to the store to make sure we have enough soap, shampoo, deodorant or makeup. We simply wake up BEAUTFUL!
Saints, when you get to the place in your inner man, where the critical voice has been removed, you realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and that your beautiful inside, making you more beautiful on the outside.
Have you ever watched a movie, where a woman is beautiful, but because she's so toxic in what she speaks and how she treats others, it makes her look uglier?
Preparing for Christ's return, looking for His Second coming, is us putting on Christ daily, as we know until the day the trumpet blows, we're beautiful in the LOVE OF GOD, loving others into the beauty of His grace! Wow!
"I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words I have gathered the richest perfumes and spices]. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends [feast on, O revelers of the palace; you can never make my lover disloyal to me]! Drink, yes, drink abundantly of love, O precious one [for now I know you are mine, irrevocably mine! With his confident words still thrilling her heart, through the lattice she saw her shepherd turn away and disappear into the night]." Song of Solomon 5:1 AMPC
So undeserved, unearned, simply for those who are thirsty and hungry for God's covering of holiness in Christ!
God bless!
Robin Kirby Gatto
HAPPY YOM TERUAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robin Kirby Gatto
1 "Wait and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing]. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. 3 Incline your ear [submit and consent to the divine will] and come to Me; hear, and your soul will revive; and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with you, even the sure mercy (kindness, goodwill, and compassion) promised to David. 4 Behold, I have appointed him (Him) [David, as a representative of the Messiah, or the Messiah Himself] to be a witness [one (One) who shall testify of salvation] to the nations, a prince (Prince) and commander (Commander) to the peoples. 5 Behold, you [Israel] shall call nations that you know not, and nations that do not know you shall run to you because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you. 6 Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may be found [claiming Him by necessity and by right]; call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have love, pity, and mercy for him, and to our God, for He will multiply to him His abundant pardon. 8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,11 So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. 12 For you shall go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland] with joy and be led forth [by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and His word] with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name of renown, for an everlasting sign [of jubilant exaltation] and memorial [to His praise], which shall not be cut off." ISAIAH 55:1-13 AMPC