Dust
14/01/09
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Welcome to Dust. Wait a minute, wasn't this called the Israel Anderson Daily Devotional? Well it was. But I didn't like the word devotional, and some of the topics I am going to delve into, are not anything you have ever read in a devotional, and so before we get too far into this I am changing the name.
There is a phrase in the Mishna* that says, "May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi." The idea was that if you followed behind your rabbi on the dusty roads, you would get covered in his dust. Meaning, you were following in his footsteps so closely, to be so much like him, that you are glorified to be covered with the dust he left behind. That is how close a disciple wanted to be to his rabbi. This is how close we want to be to our rabbi, Yeshua.
And if you're wondering, The Mishna is a major source of rabbinic Judaism's religious texts. We don't consider it an inspired work, but this phrase is just beautiful. The word Mishna means repetition.
So this new name holds a great deal of significance. We're going to talk more in the future about this and what it means to follow Yeshua. Now you've no doubt noticed that I always called our Lord by the same name His mother called Him by, Yeshua. Yeshua is written in different ways, but pronounced pretty much the same. I have nothing against the name Jesus, but my tongue can handle Yeshua, and so why translate His name into Jesus, when no one in His day ever used that word to refer to Him. And the word Jesus actually comes to us via translation through several language steps.
It's been a major part of my journey with God, to discover and wrap myself up in the reality and the mystery of knowing God. What my aim with Dust is, is to share with you my journey, my light. And to steal a line from AW Tozer, my favorite author, though my fire may be small, it is yet real, and there may be some that can light their candle at its flame.
Thank you you for listening, see you tomorrow, and may you be covered in the dust of your rabbi, Yeshua.
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