Looking to the “Old Ways, the Ancient Paths”

Our time spent in the Hebrew Roots study and worship was a time of healing for our little family. My husband and I drew much closer without the distraction of a church that was focused on separating and segregating people by age and gender. My husband had been involved actively in praise and worship and I was “encouraged” to be in Women’s Ministries, even when I believed my ministry to be my young children. My children were encouraged to look to other adults as spiritual guides and we were rarely together on Sundays. We were burnt out.

With our Shabbat time on Friday nights we prayed special prayers for each other. We prayed for our children and most of all we remembered what Jesus did for us on the cross.

Our time learning about the Biblical Holidays expanded our knowledge of the Bible and showed us just how Jesus/Yeshua as we were most often to say at that time fulfilled every prophecy about Him. We saw first hand how the holidays that God ordained showed us what was to come, first as Yeshua walked the earth and secondly in the future when He comes again. I encourage you, if you have never explored what these holidays are to do so. I won’t begin to try to “teach” about them. I am in no way a teacher to any but my children. But the eye opening that occurred for me only strengthened my faith in a wonderful, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God.

What was sad was that the interaction with like-minded people was almost non-existent. We were shunned as legalistic by our “Christian” friends and felt judged as “not good enough” by Messianic believers.

Individually I have found Messianic Christians to be very loving, but in groups it was my limited experience to find them rigid and judgmental of those not as “enlightened.” Very sad to say this happens across the denominational board.

For almost five years we practiced our faith alone as a family. Growing surely, but lonely. And every Shabbat as we talked about the sacrifice Yeshua/Jesus made for us, every time I missed Mass more and more.

It was in the sacrifice of the Eucharist and in the Mass that I began to re-see the LORD. And hunger began to burn.

~ by throughadarkglass on August 7, 2007.