Really?

An observation and proposition on the Book of Jonah and the Hebrew root אמת (Aleph Mem Tav)

You can say "Be'Emeth" בֶּאֱמֶת? For "Really? Seriously?", and it literally means "in (the) truth". The issue of truth is what should bother many when they argue against God, it would need tremendous courage and "faith" to consider moral, justice and love as purely brain chemistry, to waver the possibility of an entity which sets all in order and give that same sense & urgency in us.

Many have read the "unresolved" story of Jonah יונה as a symbolic warning so that the dove (yes, same word, יונה) symbolizing God's people, born out of אמתי "Amittai" (faithfulness) won't miss the mark and fail the task, fail to notice God's work as it happens and as mercy falls to those seemingly undeserving in front of our very eyes.

I've been raised around the premises that God's important characteristic is חסד ואמת "Khesed V'Emeth" (Mercy and Truth / Righteousness). "Ammitai" (sincerity) alone  just won't do. We can be sincere & wrong at the same time. We need open hearts to contain God's חסד "Khesed" (mercy) and open minds to God's wisdom and presence in others.

The same question is asked in our faith practices & spiritual services. Are we enriching & facilitating one another rather than cultivating discriminative & elitist cultures? Are we really & genuinely following the footsteps of ישוע The Word incarnate, being one with the lowest in their struggles, identifying with their concerns and thus lifting them to shared divinity? How do we share Christ with the ones with less voice nor influences, the small and weak? It's time to pose a loving question to the pulpits, stages, heavy symbolism & primordialism, "Be'Emeth" בֶּאֱמֶת?

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It's All Good (Even When It Isn't)

Can you believe that? The Hebrew word for "to form" and "sad" are from the same שׁוֹרֵשׁ root!

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. (Jeremiah 18:6)

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. (Job 23:10)

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; (Hebrews 5:8-9)

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. (1 Corinthians 15:19) 

This revelation I stumbled upon is truly a Good Friday miracle.

As our Jewish brethrens are observing a week of פֶּסָח Passover, remembering the deliverance, we also celebrate a groundbreaking fact that today, thousands of years back, the second matzah bread was broken, a crook, nearing his death, was accepted to be with God in paradise, and so we'll all be. This fact alone, God became flesh and died in our place, endured the worst עצוב "atsuv", as darkness מעצב "me'atzev" Christ to perfection. This had marked for all times an immutable joy to those supposedly no longer with hope. 

Today I learned to read the story in John 18-19 as a part of humanity whom for some reason were "set aside" and forgotten, those trodden by this strength and wealth worshipping society. I read about a God who is victorious not after death, but starting even in it, so that He can continually be the lifter of those incarcerated, despised and forgotten. That He later was risen as God's final word against the discriminative and oppresive nature of our sinfulness. In this kind of reading, there's no place for discriminating those lacking with faith, there's solidarity and not merely superficial compassion with the misfits and outcasts.

Today we remember that in ישוע Jesus, everyone in their lowest and darkest has Him to perfectly belong to and to partake in. Because it's a remembrance of deepest grief, it has also become the celebration and source of our perfect joy. Death has lost its sting, it has become a gateway of our perfecting, freedom, a warm embrace and a homecoming.

And for us still entrusted with the ability to ascend, should we really follow Christ, should we genuinely identify ourselves with Him, then we would consider that this finally risen and absolutely reigning Christ was asking Peter, who later taught all of us not about the "getting even justice", not about making a Christian political comeback, but this perfecting question before we're to properly serve and function , "Do you love Me?".

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