Echad

This week, I read a post about a person's sadness over broken families. She wondered how to acheive oneness with The Father, Echad. She ended with the idea that to have Echad, we should trust and obey. How very right she was!

I've been thinking about her post and here is a small thought on Echad~

In Mark 12, when Yeshua was asked what is the GREATEST commandment, he replied by reciting part of the Shema, (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) which as a Jew, was probably the first scripture he learned

"Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One (Echad)

And you shall love the Lord your God

With all your heart

and all your soul

and with all your strength..."

He went on to sum up all the law and prophets

"...and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

There is no other commandment greater than these."

In another place, Matt 22:40, he says

"On this hangs all the law and the Prophets..."

The first instance of Echad is in the creation story in Genesis 1, and here it is a few verses later in Genesis 2:24...

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,

and shall cleave unto his wife:

and they shall be one (echad) flesh.

When we are so very intimate with our spouse that our very chromosomes mingle, the result is a "to one flesh-ness;" in other words, a baby.

The same with YHVH, When we are intent on pleasing HIM, we give HIM our all, the result is that we bear godly fruit with Him and we can not sin! There's just no way!

That begs the question, What is sin?

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law:

for sin is the transgression of the law. (1Jn 3:4)

When we walk perfectly before him, become Echad, we are walking in and obeying HIS Law *because we love him*, we are so very intimate with him that we can't do anything else. We do what pleases HIM and only then are we able to bear His fruit, namely

Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,

Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control.

With this fruit, His fruit, we are able to:

… walk before me (Almighty God),

and be thou perfect. (Gen 17:1)

How do we know just what pleases The Father? Through HIS WORD!!! Here are just a few examples:

"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;

even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." (Joh 15:10)

"Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God,

to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments,

as at this day." (1Ki 8:61)

"I delight to do thy will, O my God:

yea, thy law is within my heart." (Psa 40:8 )

...and the entire chapter of Psalm 119!

~Shalom

~WOW~