Comments on: Blinded by Our own Brilliance

By: Chuck Weyh

Chuck Weyh — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:50:29 +0000

Thank you!

This is a converse image to the institutional egotism of our times, expressed for example in the bombshell book “Homo Deus” by Yuval Noah Harari. I am reminded of a point an atheist colleague once made, that “there is no ultimate power or reality, only things we haven’t discovered yet.” Atheists truly have great faith!

By: kunjubi varghese

kunjubi varghese — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:14:24 +0000

This enlightens the golden chapter 19 Psalms.
The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2Day unto day uttereth speech,
And night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3There is no speech nor language,
Where their voice is not heard.
4Their line is gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.
In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

By: Candis Stewart

Candis Stewart — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:44:26 +0000

Thank you for sharing your inspiration!

By: Kathleen Meyer-Van Dyke

Kathleen Meyer-Van Dyke — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:46:53 +0000

Wow!!!! Well said. Psalm 8 immediately comes to mind. Here is verse 3.
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;”
Totally blessed by this writing.

By: Diane Olsen

Diane Olsen — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:13:10 +0000

Lois, I love that you are writing about this. Just this morning, before I got to read this post, I read God’s response to Job, experiencing the humble sense of awe you are concerned with in your writing that we have lost. How I thank the Lord that I felt that!

May God bless you greatly as you continue to write and speak, and help to make known in your gifted way, the vital Hebraic and Jewish foundations of faith in Yeshua, helping us deepen more and more into a daily life of awe and Love.

By: Ruth Harvey

Ruth Harvey — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:23:50 +0000

What more can be said but AMEN. Please God restore, open our hearts and minds.

By: Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:39:31 +0000

Thanks this is very encouraging. It is so true.

When I was in my first early years at school , my report states that when poetry was read in class( don’t think they do that now) I used to stare in wonder out the window.

It wasn’t until I came into Torah that that wonder was defined, by realising every word Yeshua says is from Torah and the prophets.

By the way, Lois , It was Ray van DER Laan , who opened they way for me, I just caught an episode on TV of him sitting across from Nazareth it awakened in me the whole reality of the Bible and the awesomeness of YHWH . I got a few of his DVD sets. Then I started learning Biblical Hebrew and then The Path To Life – Torah appeared. . It is like a jewellery case that one keeps going deeper into and finding out more precious gems. Good luck with your book.

By: Jim MacGregor

Jim MacGregor — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:50:14 +0000

Being blinded by our own brilliance reminds me of —
“But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” (Revelation 2:5/ESV)

Although not stated in Revelation, we may wonder if the church at Ephesus (“abandoned the love you had at first”) was maintaining worship, evangelization, charity, and other practices as good works for their own sake rather than out of fervent love for Jesus.

It is evident that the church at Ephesus was fulfilling the true ideal of Church order and proper ministry. Outward appearances show everything flawless, as it should be in organization, work, and attitude. One author (G. Campbell Morgan) saw “abandoned the love you had at first” as pointing to a church that was faultless by worldly standards; that was so perfect in all their speech and actions that they did not speak to our needs as sinners facing daily difficulties. One author expressed his view of what the church at Ephesus might have been like by quoting from a poem (“Maud; A Monodrama” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson). The poet wrote of the “perfect” woman who was “faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection, no more; nothing more”.

By: Michelle Van Loon

Michelle Van Loon — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:36:25 +0000

Wise post! And Heschel’s words are spot-on. Wow.

By: Monica Sartin

Monica Sartin — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 17:42:30 +0000

Excellent article with words that need to be spoken. Just the other night we hosted a Yom Teruah meeting at our house…a space in time that is to be holy, set apart and highlighted by expectations from being there for an ‘appointment’ with God. What else was there? Phones ringing, text messages, chitter chatter when speakers are trying to speak. We have gone very far backward in our reverence for our Holy God. We need to regain that which we have lost by realizing that we are walking into another dimension with HIM at the center.

By: Terri Girardi

Terri Girardi — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:10:01 +0000

I was just reviewing SHADOWS in preparation for teaching the Feasts the next couple of weeks to wonderfully excited Gentile women. I happened on your post and thought I should take a moment and read it to help me shift my distractions from the computer. 😉
I was thinking about how we are “eyeball deep” into technology and it made me think of the former realities of worship – raw, responsive, etc. Then, I picture the side screen projectors at church and how I often actually watch the copy instead of the real. You’re so right – we’re moving backwards and taking it for granted…

By: marge willman

marge willman — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:55:22 +0000

Wonderfully written, Lois! I don’t know what inspired you to put these thoughts on “paper”, but it is something we all need to hear. I am currently in a study of spiritual and contemplative life and the readings point out a similar theme. The part about the Cub Scouts overnight made it clear.