The summer months are upon us and time to enjoy God’s creation. While studying the topic biblical hospitality it came as no surprise it starts with an understanding of what is the Torah.

The simplicity of Isaiah 40:8 demonstrates the word is the highest and greatest of creation.  I always thought it was Adam. Here are a couple of insights concerning what is the Torah. In Exodus 19:7-8, Moses came down from the mountain with a word from God. The people answered Moses by accepting what the Lord had spoken and Moses returned to the Lord with an answer.

You can look at this verse in many ways, but by faith the people accepted the word spoken by God through Moses.Believing God, therefore accepting the Torah, requires no intellectual comprehension or emotions.Remember in Gen. 2:19-20, God formed the animals and brought them to Adam to be named. Wow, call it wisdom, intelligence or street smarts, we cannot imagine how Adam arrived to all those names. He disobeyed God’s commandment and fell from grace, along with his wife.

I should note here the tree of good and evil was the first non-kosher food. Adam new exactly the purpose/function of everything created and still the Torah is far above him.

Mankind has always wanted to quantify everything. There is one thing we can never quantify, eternity. God set eternity in the heart of man Ecclesiastes 3:11- He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. I end with this great passage; 1Cor. 2:6-9 – Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;  the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.

Enjoy your summer in the grass and the perfume of flowers!!

The grass withers, the flower fades,But the word of our God stands forever.

Shalom Always,
Tom