-Love like Aluah

         

Reading several scriptures about love, I realized that I hadn’t yet been able to completely walk in the kind of love that Aluah revealed to us in the scriptures and by His WORD. The problem that we seem to have with understanding Aluah’s love is that there just aren’t that many examples in the natural world that can be compared to the Aluah kind of LOVE. Most of us can understand the parts of Aluah’s LOVE that can be compared to a father’s love for a child or caring for the weak. Those things can be seen even among the wicked and un-qadash but there is a depth to Aluah’s love that most have never explored.

“Hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins.”

-Mashly 10:12

“He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.”

-Mashly 17:9

Kasah: to cover, conceal, hide

to be clothed

With these two small sentences in Mashly we can to begin to see a side to YHUH’s Love that most of us have not thought about; LOVE doesn’t ever want to bring unnecessary shame to anyone if it can be avoided. LOVE will not reveal sin to anyone that does not need to know about it. Sin must be reproved but love seeks to cover that sin until it and the shame that it brings is removed forever. Don’t take the statement written before the wrong way, love doesn’t hide sin, it clothes the person so the shame of the sin is not seen.

“He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have Loving-kindness.”

-Mashly 28:13

                It is interesting that one cannot attempt to cover his own sins. For the one that sins there is only one decree that they confess and forsake those sins.

“Unto Adam also and to his wife did YHUH Alhym make coats of skins, and clothed them.”

-Barashath 3:21

Labash: to dress, wear, clothe, put on clothing, be clothed

“And Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and he became uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Kana’an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. And Shem and Yafath took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father, but their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.”

-Barashath 9:20-23

Kasah: to cover, conceal, hide

to be clothed

When Noach became drunk, he revealed himself inside his tent. Let me be so bold as to uncover the mashal (proverb or parable) of this action. When one becomes uncovered or naked they have revealed their shame, their sins become visible for all to see. For the righteous this is a horrible state to be in.

Ham looked on his father’s shame and then went and shared his unseemly knowledge with his brothers. He did not act in love but rather ran to uncover the stumbling of a righteous man. Shem and Yafath were not willing to look upon their father’s humiliation when he was at his most vulnerable. They covered their father’s shame without ever seeing it themselves.

When Abam sinned he tried to hide his sin unsuccessfully. YHUH made for him and his wife coverings that more fully concealed their shame. Sin always will ultimately become visible, but how and to whom should the shame of iniquity be revealed? Should a person’s shame be uncovered so that the wicked can make a mock of them, and slay the righteous that is already wounded?

According to the prophets there are only two types of people, the righteous and the wicked. So how do we define which is which, is it simply because of their fleshly sins or is there more to perceive in this matter? Many of the men YHUH Alhym called righteous committed sins that seemed to be great, yet YH YHUH was their Salvation and covered their sins without a second thought. Others that made errors that to man might have seemed small but YHUH rejected them all most immediately. What was the difference, why was one counted righteous and the other wicked?

“When I say unto the wicked, you shall surely die, and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life. The same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your being. Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die, because you have not given him warning. He shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood will I require at your hand. Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned, also you have delivered your being.”

-Yahzaq’Al 3:18-21

Notice that the scripture never makes the statement that the wicked turns from his way. It says if you warn the wicked and he turn not from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity. The wicked’s heart will not turn from his sin; he is in agreement with his sins. The righteous on the other hand will not come into agreement with sin. They will repent from their errors when YHUH chastises them.

We need only to look at the first two Kings of Yashr’Al to see the difference. Dud (David) quickly turned from his errors when YHUH Alhym corrected him. Dud’s heart smote him time and again when he sinned against the Ways of YHUH Alhym. Shaul continued in his sins and excused himself from hearing the voice of YHUH. It is evidently demonstrated by these two men, that the terminal error is not the fleshly sins but is the wicked's hardened heart that will not be reproved by the Almighty.

 “Now the birth of YHUH Ha Mashack was on this wise: When as his mother Marym was espoused to Yasaf, before they came together, she was found with child of the Ruack Ha Qadash. Then Yasaf her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.”

-Mattithew 1:18-19

Yasaf was not willing to shame his wife to be even when he believed that she had committed one of the most horrible sins that he could have imagined against him. LOVE will never revel or take delight in another person is entangled and stumbles in sin. The scripture states that Yasaf didn’t want to make a public example of Marym because he was a “just” man, being just therefore would mean that we would never want to put anyone to an open shame because of sin. This does not mean that LOVE would ever stand by and approve of any sin no matter how small. It is sin that kills not LOVE; LOVE always seeks to deliver from the power of sin.

Now maybe we can begin to comprehend how man’s ideas have deviated from the LOVE of YHUH. Man wants to be vindicated and to feel some emotional gratification when dealing with someone else's sin. YHUH our Aluah always deals with sin based on the need for men to turn from their sins and repent. With Aluah, dealing with man’s sin is a necessity not a want. This is the revelation YHUH Ha Mashack began to show when dealing with the woman caught in adultery.

“When YHUH had lifted up Himself, and saw none but the woman, He said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Has no man condemned you? She said, No man, Master. And YHUH said unto her, neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.”

-Yahanan 8:10 -11

YHUH Ha Mashack deals with both the punishment of the woman’s sins and the very sin itself with one SPLENDID stroke. He simply removed her accusers and the punishment was gone; then He reproves her sin by telling her to go and sin no more. How wonderfully unsearchable are the depths of Aluah’s Loving-kindness toward us!

Up until now it has all seemed well enough; we all want our sins forgiven and so we are willing to see how we must forgive others... but here comes the other shoe so ready yourself for the next step in the YHUH kind of LOVE.

“For Aluah so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Yahanan 3:16

Most of us know the above scripture well and embrace the message that YHUH our Aluah conveys to us by it. And if I were to ask most of you if we should walk as Ha Mashack walked you would all agree... right? We all love the fact that Aluah is a Good and Loving FATHER willing to take us back after we have sinned.

If you seek love from our Father in Shamym, you will turn from your own sins, but will also be willing to clothe those who like you have fallen and need to be lifted up.

Your life isn’t your own... be perfect as your FATHER in Shamym is perfect.