Yes or No?

You know, we go for Chatime so often now that it really loses its originality to me. It feels like I want Chatime but I know what already awaits me if I were to push myself just a bit further:

[Pro 25:16] Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Yahweh has blessed me with so much honey. So much so that everywhere I turn there will always be something that I can just refresh myself with just like how Jonathan stretched out his staff and was refreshed by the honey. Though ignorant of the oath made by his father King Saul, he nonetheless was refreshed and was able to continue to take up arms against the Philistines.

[1Sa 14:27] But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

[1Sa 14:30] How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

Honey is good for the soul. I speak in figure of speech. I'm talking about the blessings that Elohim daily load is with. It is in our right as sons of Elohim that we take all that the Father has for us but it is in the mind of wisdom that we sometimes discern when to take what and where. It is needful for a son to receive what his father gives him, but it is a wise son to be able to say 'no' in the proper situations.

That is not to say that we should despise what Yeshua has blessed us with through His death on the cross. He died to bring us into the very presence of the Heavenly Father; no longer to shy away but to come boldly before Him through the blood of Messiah. He died to give us all but it is in wisdom that we realise that not all is of the will of Elohim.

[1Co 10:23] All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

A long while back I had an acquaintance who asked me what exactly does it mean when Yahweh says that He gives us dark treasures of the earth. And to me it is exactly as it sounds. The treasures of this earth amount to nothing more than darkness that invites sin and temptation to enter but still Yahweh gives us such for our use. How can this be?! Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of lights and yet He would still give us treasures of darkness together with it?

[Isa 45:3] And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, יהוה, which call thee by thy name, am the Elohim of Israel.

In this context Elohim talks to King Cyrus and promises to give him the secret treasures of the earth which man has not known that he may know there is no power on earth that rules without Heaven's permission and authority. And yet it also applies to us I believe. He has put all things into subjection in Messiah Yeshua but now we do not see all things put under. But the fact of the matter is all things have been subdued and thus under our power as the body of Messiah. We have access to the storehouses of Heaven and the deep treasures of the earth but it is in the heart of a wise son to be able to choose and discern between holy and unholy. Not everything the Heavenly Father permits is what He desires of us. He permits all because all have been cleansed by the blood of His Son but not everything will bring us nearer into intimacy with Him.

I began with Chatime, just how did I come here. I was just trying to say that it is in our best interest that we learn to say 'no' and not just 'yes' in every situation because not everything situation demands that a 'yes' be supplied to resolve it. The blessings of Yahweh add no sorrow therewith but too much of something sweet in the body leaves one nauseated. Again not to say that we should refuse the blessings of Elohim with which He freely gives us through Yeshua Messiah but simply to know that He looks deeper than that. Just like king Hezekiah's case. The Babylonians were in all respect concerned about his welfare and thus looks like a blessing and favour of Elohim upon him. But:

[2Ch 32:31] Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, Elohim left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

The Holy Spirit is here to teach us when to speak the right word in the right time. We need not think so much about this but rather to just remember that in our walk with Elohim, we will find that a 'no' will be sometimes sweeter than a 'yes'. Hopefully you understand dear reader.

-Sunday, 20th November 2016, 1 year 2 months 13 days, 2305