The Way of Life

We want Yah to be a Father to us, so then we must allow Him to  function as that Father.

It is quite easy to to say that every good and perfect gift comes from above from  the Father of Lights in whom is no variableness or shadow of turning, but it is harder to accept that whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges.

But I would believe that this is the more important function of Abba's 'fatherness' --  the rebuking, chastening, the scourging.

We are so wayward and reluctant in our following of the way of righteousness that discipline MUST be a continual and constant companion of those who would see God.

Wise: from an ancient word that means "to see".
Dom: a suffix that can mean "a condition of".
Wisdom - the condition of being able to see.

Wisdom tells us to hearken unto her for she will lead us in right paths. To be wise is to be able to 'see'. See what? See how to 
discern and judge between what is good and right  according to how the FATHER estimates what is good and right.

Once we are able to 'see' what is good and right, and of course,
follow what is good and right, we are on the path of righteousness.

We are not to walk according to our own reasoning or how things seem.

The standard, the plumbline, for determining what the Father sees as good and right is the Word. Immersing ourselves and allowing the Word to saturate our spirit and soul will help our 'seeing'. 

Being attentive on a daily basis of Wisdom's call, with ears pricked up as an alert son, waiting to hear the voice of the Father, will guide us in righteousness' path. 

As we abide in Christ, and our hearts are intertwined with His, as we become One, as we let the Word of God rule in our hearts, we are purged, cleaned, made undefiled. 

And it is those that are undefiled, purged, made clean, that will see God. Our obedience to following the path, taking heed to the Word of instruction, allowing the correction and scourging to have its perfect work, it is that that will make us an abode of the Godhead. They will manifest themselves to us and through us when the temple is clean.

But we must yield ourselves to the corrective hand of the Father.

Father, help me to not only yield to your correction but to desire your correction! I want to be conformed to the image of my elder brother! I want us to be so intertwined as one that I am always seeing through your eyes and hearing through your ears - manifest yourself to me! Clean me through your word.