A daily Word
I can’t believe it’s true but I must have started the Daily Dvar program through Ruach two years ago and have completed reading the Bible! The reason I think so is that when I began this past Sunday’s passages the readings were back on Genesis 1, Psalm 1, and Matthew 1. It really felt like I had been daily reading or listening for only one year, for time passes so swiftly. Whatever the time frame, I felt so enriched to have experienced the Bible through this program. Wow!
It’s not that I did so perfectly. When I would miss a day, I would catch up the next day by reading two days’ passages. Yet I did keep Daily Dvar as a discipline in my life that has been so-o-o-o-o-o impactful beyond measure. Yes, I have read the Bible over my lifetime, especially more completely in the last 23 years. We also know that every time we read it, we see new messages, little gems of insight that so often miraculously seem meant for experiences in our lives at those very moments of study! Or different sections speak to us differently for so many reasons when we read them anew. How timeless are the stories being told in Scripture, His teachings, so relevant then as now.
When our current situations and needs seem to align so perfectly with our Bible study, we sense not only His intimate presence, but also, are in awe of His Omnipresence through time and space. He knows the events in our lives that are being and will be ministered to by His Divine, all-knowing, all seeing, all hearing Presence through all time, including to and with us today and in the future, as He was with our ancestors and will be with our descendants. This mysterious, inscrutable by design truth, not only brings His Word profoundly into our individual daily lives, but also, into the lives of all mankind, through history, now and in the future, a divinely inspired book for sure!
So I decided to do it all over again – to start the Daily Dvar anew. As I have been delving again into the early chapters of Genesis, early Psalms, and Matthew, it was as if I hadn’t just done this so recently. I experienced new messages, had new thoughts about the temptation of Adam and Eve, new insights into the story of Cain and Abel, new meanings in Yeshua’s birth. Those moments of inspiration lifted me from my daily routine to a place feeling so connected with the divine. I felt so excited, amazed, living those inspired moments more deeply, feeling there is so much more to this world than we typically experience in the day-to-day routines, the financial and health challenges, the stresses, the busy-ness. I was so grateful to have set aside this special time to just be with Him.
What a journey we can be on to so uplift our lives with His Living Word, again and again and again.
On this holiest of days as the Torah scroll is rolled back to its beginning, if you haven’t yet signed up for the Daily Dvar, I encourage you to do so in these next few days. You will hear Him anew no matter how much you have already studied Scripture. For those not as familiar with the Bible, you will experience awe inspiring insights as you make time for Him, to listen to and study His teachings, to learn from mankind’s triumphs but more often, failings, to more deeply understand the forbearance and guidance intended by our holy teacher as we stub our toes again and again, to more fully appreciate His unfailing love of us, His grace and mercy.
His Word is both holy and relatable as our Abba has so blessed us through Yeshua’s being both divine and human. You will feel His warm embrace, His closeness, His love, His protection, His suffering, and yet, His shalom as He teaches us divine trust and sacrificial love.
As the Torah and these blessed readings start anew, so too may you, with new eyes and ears experience new days of awe of Him, through the gift of His Word, a blessing beyond the words.
Shabbat shalom.
Diane