To Chose Him as our Lord....

What does it really mean to choose YHVH as our God/Lord???  I'm sure different denominations teach varying definitions, but I came across something in scripture today that struck me.  Today, most are merely taught decisionism - simply decide He is your God, and He is.  This is not entirely true!  YHVH tells us in scripture in detail what it means to choose Him.  In fact, He lays out for us both sides of the agreement!

"Thou has avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:  And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken." (Deuteronomy 26:17-19

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Even though we choose YHVH ourselves, (and yes, we are saved by faith through Yeshua, our Messiah), we must recognize that we are choosing to enter into covenant with Him.  Just as we choose our spouse, but entered into a covenant where we were expected to hold up our end!

If there is any doubt that this is applicable for believers today, please see 1 Peter 2:9 ...

"but ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of his who hath called yo out of darkness into his marvellous light"

Notice the similarity in the language??  We gladly claim these promises today, but we fail to acknowledge that we are expected to hold up our end of the bargain as well!!  These words were written by Peter, who walked with Christ himself!  In this very letter, he addresses his audience (the "strangers scattered throughout" referring to the lost house of Israel in the diaspora) as:

"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."

Many of us as believers today have been taught only a "piece and parcel" approach to scripture.  We are given snippets, which have been torn from their larger context and intent.  If we are to truly understand our Bibles and truly be YHVH's people, we MUST know Him and His Word properly - as it was written and as it was intended.  Read the Word in it's entirety!  Don't take my word for it - or anyone else's.  Read it for yourself and hear what He wants you to hear.  Then, dig in!  Study to the best of your ability, and you'll begin to see a clear picture emerge of who YHVH really is and what He wants for and from His people!

As usual, I'm begging you.. PLEASE... if you call yourself a Christian, one of YHVH's peculiar people, MAKE SURE you are His according to the standard that He places on us in scripture.  Don't simply go by what anyone (and I do mean anyone) tells you.  There are those out there who will knowingly lie to you, and there are those who are sincere but have been taught wrongly themselves.  In the end, we are all accountable for ourselves, and we must seek HIM ourselves if we hope to be His people.

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Please note:  The scriptures in this article are from the KJV translation.  When LORD appears in capital letters, it is an indication given to us by the translators that this is where the Name of God appears in the original text.  When you see this, you know that at that point in scripture, the original reads YHVH (yod-hey-vav-hey), the four Hebrew letters which spell His Name.  We sing songs about praising His Name, it's time we knew that Name and began to truly Praise it!

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