I am His
and
He is mine
Story
HER•STORY
My heart is overwhelmed. I'm overjoyed! With my mouth I praise Him and rejoice for this long awaited glorious day that is soon to come, because I know I was not always the woman I stand to be today. The truth is, when we first met, my beginnings were quite humble and poor. All the other nations that surrounded me were set against me and if it hadn't been for my Beloved intervening, I would have perished.
Though I was a lot like the other nations around me, my moral character was deplorable, greedy, lustful and selfish. Yet He found me, like one rejected: thrown out into an open field, because I was despised on the day of my birth — no one cared for me. There was no one who had compassion for me, I was like a worm.
He then passed by and saw me wallowing hopelessly in my blood and said to me, ‘Live!' Yes, He actually spoke life over me and declared that I live. He caused me to multiply as the bud of a field. During those days, I grew and matured and became very beautiful. I was very well endowed and my hair grew long, yet I was naked and bare.
He passed by again and looked at me, when I was at an age old enough for love. He spread the corner of His garment over me and covered my nakedness, and then made His vow to me. I entered into a covenant with Him at Mount Sinai and there I became His. He then bathed me with water and washed away my blood, and anointed me with oil.
I was in awe. He clothed me in embroidered cloth and gave me fine leather sandals. He wrapped me in fine linen and covered me with silk. He also adorned me with jewels, putting bracelets on my wrists, a chain around my neck, a ring in my nose, earrings in my ears, and a beautiful crown upon my head.
He adorned me with gold and silver, and my clothing was of the finest linen and silk and embroidered cloth. He fed me with fine flour, honey and oil. I grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. My fame spread among the nations on account of my beauty, which was not of myself. It was perfect in His splendor which He bestowed upon me — His beauty, not mine.
However because of my fame, I trusted in my beauty and began to play the harlot. I lavished favors on everyone who passed by, my beauty was theirs for the asking. I even took some of my garments and made for myself colorful shrines, and on them I prostituted myself. I played the whore. Such things should of never happened; never ever should this have went down!
I even took the fine jewels of His gold and silver that He gave me, and made myself male idols, with which I prostituted myself. I took my embroidered garments to cover them, and offered my Beloved's oil and incense before them. I was not in my right mind. Not to mention, as a pleasing aroma, I took the fine flour, the oil, and the honey which He fed me with, and offered it before these idols. This was the woman I used to be, in my youth.
I also went as far as to take the sons and daughters I bore to my Beloved, and sacrificed them to molech. I slaughtered His children and I delivered them up through the fire to idols. My heart was sick and in all my abominations and selfish acts of whoredom, I did not once remember my poor humble beginnings when I was naked and bare, hopelessly wallowing in my blood.
So because of all my filthiness and whoredoms, I was stripped of my jewels and all my adornments. Even the neighboring nations were set against me and saw my nakedness: the shameful disgrace I truly was, without the beautiful splendor of my Beloved. For He righteously judged me because He called me to be unique from the surrounding nations but, instead I became just like them. If not worse. Samaria was north of me and Sodom was south of me and yet I was more corrupt than they.
Sodom and her daughters were arrogant and prideful, had plenty of food and an abundance of idleness. She didn't even help the poor and needy, she was haughty and did things my Beloved hates. To make matters worse Samaria, on the other hand, didn't do half the things I did, and yet I judged her. Just as Adam did Eve and Cain did Abel. My story is not picture perfect by any means. It reveals the hopelessness and depravity of humanity's most underlying fundamental dilemma: sin. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, because it is our nature to do so. Every person born enters this world in the likeness of Adam, inheriting his sinful nature which leads to death, therefore we are desperately in need of the righteous redeeming victorious Life of the Last Adam.
Needless to say, I became the reproach of the daughters of Edom and all those that were surrounding me, that despised me. Truly I needed a Savior, I couldn't bear the burden of my wretched whoredoms and idolatry. Everyone saw me for who I really was. Yet despite the certainty of my judgment, my Beloved did not forget the covenant He made with me in my youth. I continued to hold a special place in His plan of the ages, and in His heart He purposed to reconcile me back to Himself, along with all nations — yet our restoration would not be by merit, it would simply be by His grace and truth.
HIS•STORY
Now when He promised me His everlasting covenant, I was barren. I had not given birth to a child yet. Nonetheless, He told me to sing and cry aloud. Alleluia! He declared life over me again. He said that I'd break forth on the right hand and on the left, with more children than the married woman. I was speechless. Why would He tell me that my seed, that Incorruptible Seed, would inherit all nations and make the desolate cities inhabited? Because He is the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob and through Abraham's seed would all nations be blessed.
So I sung and worshiped the one true living God of Israel: 'My Beloved is a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried to Him with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill!' His words were as rivers of living water, to a dry, thirsty and parched land. Before I saw any thing come to pass, I began to prepare my dwellings and enlarged my place to make room for more children. I wasn't afraid anymore — He told me not to be. He said, I will not be ashamed nor humiliated because I'd forget the shame of my youth and the reproach of my widowhood. Alleluia!
My Beloved called me when I was rejected; as a wife of one's youth, a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit; afflicted, troubled and confused. He called me when I was blinded and my eyes were darkened; when I could not see. I couldn't even hear. I was oppressed and cut off for clinging to my own customs and prideful stubborn ways. In my disobedience, I watched Him forsake me to make a people who were not a people, His own people. It really provoked me to jealousy and truly I was envious for a while, it hardened my heart even more.
However I remained not in unbelief, and He grafted me into my own good olive tree: for God is able to graft me in again. He reminded me that He did not forget me, even though I did stumble, nor did He cast me away. But through my fall, salvation had come to the Gentiles! So as a natural branch, yes I was initially cut off due to unbelief but again I did not remain that way. I believed that He would always be my Maker, my Husband, YAHUAH of hosts [the LORD of hosts] my Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel who is to be called the God of the whole earth: for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, will not die but have everlasting life.
He spoke with great mercy, telling me that although He forsook me (for a while), He would gather me, and although He hid His face from me (because of His anger), it was only for a moment. Yet through His righteous Servant, with everlasting kindness He promised to bestow mercy upon me to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved of Israel. He would also give His Servant for a light to the Gentiles that He may be His salvation to the ends of the earth. He promised this, the same way He promised Noah never to flood the earth again, so also He sworn to me that He will not be angry with me nor rebuke me, ever again.
So when the fullness of the time was come, I brought forth a Man Child who sprung out of Judah. The Deliver who should turn away all ungodliness from Jacob. He who is to rule ALL nations with a rod of iron. This Child was caught up to God and His throne: the Son of God [that Incorruptible Seed, the last Adam: the everlasting Father, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace, our High Priest and the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey (believe/receive) Him], whom God sent, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that the remnant of Israel and all nations might receive the adoption of children. And because we are children that received His beloved Son, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
OUR•STORY
Now I say that Jesus Christ came as a Servant to us, the circumcision [the Judaeans], to show that God is true and to confirm the promises He made to our ancestors. Christ also came so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for His mercy to them as well. That is what the psalmist meant when he wrote: “For this cause, I will confess You among the Gentiles and sing praises to Your name.” And again he says: "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people." And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you nations.” And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles hope.” Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing in Him, that you may overflow in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are now reconciled and restored by the precious blood of the Lamb: in Him there is neither Judean nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female, for we all are one in Messiah. He who washed us and sanctified us and justified us in the name of Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. For Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the scriptures: no man can come to the Father except by the Messiah. So come, let us return to YAHUAH [the LORD]; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has smitten us, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us, and in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.
Today, my Beloved is mine and I am His. I am betrothed forever to the only begotten Son of God, in righteousness, and in judgment, in lovingkindness, and in compassion. Even in faithfulness. He made me a virtuous woman, completely covered in His righteousness, written in the Lamb's book of life, that we may enter through the gates of that great city of the living God, mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem — and intimately know the one and true God, and His beloved Son Jesus Christ [Yahusha ha'Mashiach] whom He has sent.
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called ['invited'] unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” (Revelation 19:7-9)
‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿
My dear friend, there is a family, a Divine Family. A safe place — a place of refuge, of peace, of love, of joy and rest. The Good Shepherd’s calling for His sheep to return before it’s too late. Can you hear His still soft voice? Come. Everyone that is of the truth, hears His voice...
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and My Father are one.” (John 10:27-30)
My heart is overwhelmed. I'm overjoyed! With my mouth I praise Him and rejoice for this long awaited glorious day that is soon to come, because I know I was not always the woman I stand to be today. The truth is, when we first met, my beginnings were quite humble and poor. All the other nations that surrounded me were set against me and if it hadn't been for my Beloved intervening, I would have perished.
Though I was a lot like the other nations around me, my moral character was deplorable, greedy, lustful and selfish. Yet He found me, like one rejected: thrown out into an open field, because I was despised on the day of my birth — no one cared for me. There was no one who had compassion for me, I was like a worm.
He then passed by and saw me wallowing hopelessly in my blood and said to me, ‘Live!' Yes, He actually spoke life over me and declared that I live. He caused me to multiply as the bud of a field. During those days, I grew and matured and became very beautiful. I was very well endowed and my hair grew long, yet I was naked and bare.
He passed by again and looked at me, when I was at an age old enough for love. He spread the corner of His garment over me and covered my nakedness, and then made His vow to me. I entered into a covenant with Him at Mount Sinai and there I became His. He then bathed me with water and washed away my blood, and anointed me with oil.
I was in awe. He clothed me in embroidered cloth and gave me fine leather sandals. He wrapped me in fine linen and covered me with silk. He also adorned me with jewels, putting bracelets on my wrists, a chain around my neck, a ring in my nose, earrings in my ears, and a beautiful crown upon my head.
He adorned me with gold and silver, and my clothing was of the finest linen and silk and embroidered cloth. He fed me with fine flour, honey and oil. I grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. My fame spread among the nations on account of my beauty, which was not of myself. It was perfect in His splendor which He bestowed upon me — His beauty, not mine.
However because of my fame, I trusted in my beauty and began to play the harlot. I lavished favors on everyone who passed by, my beauty was theirs for the asking. I even took some of my garments and made for myself colorful shrines, and on them I prostituted myself. I played the whore. Such things should of never happened; never ever should this have went down!
I even took the fine jewels of His gold and silver that He gave me, and made myself male idols, with which I prostituted myself. I took my embroidered garments to cover them, and offered my Beloved's oil and incense before them. I was not in my right mind. Not to mention, as a pleasing aroma, I took the fine flour, the oil, and the honey which He fed me with, and offered it before these idols. This was the woman I used to be, in my youth.
I also went as far as to take the sons and daughters I bore to my Beloved, and sacrificed them to molech. I slaughtered His children and I delivered them up through the fire to idols. My heart was sick and in all my abominations and selfish acts of whoredom, I did not once remember my poor humble beginnings when I was naked and bare, hopelessly wallowing in my blood.
So because of all my filthiness and whoredoms, I was stripped of my jewels and all my adornments. Even the neighboring nations were set against me and saw my nakedness: the shameful disgrace I truly was, without the beautiful splendor of my Beloved. For He righteously judged me because He called me to be unique from the surrounding nations but, instead I became just like them. If not worse. Samaria was north of me and Sodom was south of me and yet I was more corrupt than they.
Sodom and her daughters were arrogant and prideful, had plenty of food and an abundance of idleness. She didn't even help the poor and needy, she was haughty and did things my Beloved hates. To make matters worse Samaria, on the other hand, didn't do half the things I did, and yet I judged her. Just as Adam did Eve and Cain did Abel. My story is not picture perfect by any means. It reveals the hopelessness and depravity of humanity's most underlying fundamental dilemma: sin. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, because it is our nature to do so. Every person born enters this world in the likeness of Adam, inheriting his sinful nature which leads to death, therefore we are desperately in need of the righteous redeeming victorious Life of the Last Adam.
Needless to say, I became the reproach of the daughters of Edom and all those that were surrounding me, that despised me. Truly I needed a Savior, I couldn't bear the burden of my wretched whoredoms and idolatry. Everyone saw me for who I really was. Yet despite the certainty of my judgment, my Beloved did not forget the covenant He made with me in my youth. I continued to hold a special place in His plan of the ages, and in His heart He purposed to reconcile me back to Himself, along with all nations — yet our restoration would not be by merit, it would simply be by His grace and truth.
HIS•STORY
Now when He promised me His everlasting covenant, I was barren. I had not given birth to a child yet. Nonetheless, He told me to sing and cry aloud. Alleluia! He declared life over me again. He said that I'd break forth on the right hand and on the left, with more children than the married woman. I was speechless. Why would He tell me that my seed, that Incorruptible Seed, would inherit all nations and make the desolate cities inhabited? Because He is the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob and through Abraham's seed would all nations be blessed.
So I sung and worshiped the one true living God of Israel: 'My Beloved is a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried to Him with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill!' His words were as rivers of living water, to a dry, thirsty and parched land. Before I saw any thing come to pass, I began to prepare my dwellings and enlarged my place to make room for more children. I wasn't afraid anymore — He told me not to be. He said, I will not be ashamed nor humiliated because I'd forget the shame of my youth and the reproach of my widowhood. Alleluia!
My Beloved called me when I was rejected; as a wife of one's youth, a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit; afflicted, troubled and confused. He called me when I was blinded and my eyes were darkened; when I could not see. I couldn't even hear. I was oppressed and cut off for clinging to my own customs and prideful stubborn ways. In my disobedience, I watched Him forsake me to make a people who were not a people, His own people. It really provoked me to jealousy and truly I was envious for a while, it hardened my heart even more.
However I remained not in unbelief, and He grafted me into my own good olive tree: for God is able to graft me in again. He reminded me that He did not forget me, even though I did stumble, nor did He cast me away. But through my fall, salvation had come to the Gentiles! So as a natural branch, yes I was initially cut off due to unbelief but again I did not remain that way. I believed that He would always be my Maker, my Husband, YAHUAH of hosts [the LORD of hosts] my Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel who is to be called the God of the whole earth: for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, will not die but have everlasting life.
He spoke with great mercy, telling me that although He forsook me (for a while), He would gather me, and although He hid His face from me (because of His anger), it was only for a moment. Yet through His righteous Servant, with everlasting kindness He promised to bestow mercy upon me to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved of Israel. He would also give His Servant for a light to the Gentiles that He may be His salvation to the ends of the earth. He promised this, the same way He promised Noah never to flood the earth again, so also He sworn to me that He will not be angry with me nor rebuke me, ever again.
So when the fullness of the time was come, I brought forth a Man Child who sprung out of Judah. The Deliver who should turn away all ungodliness from Jacob. He who is to rule ALL nations with a rod of iron. This Child was caught up to God and His throne: the Son of God [that Incorruptible Seed, the last Adam: the everlasting Father, the mighty God, the Prince of Peace, our High Priest and the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey (believe/receive) Him], whom God sent, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that the remnant of Israel and all nations might receive the adoption of children. And because we are children that received His beloved Son, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
OUR•STORY
Now I say that Jesus Christ came as a Servant to us, the circumcision [the Judaeans], to show that God is true and to confirm the promises He made to our ancestors. Christ also came so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for His mercy to them as well. That is what the psalmist meant when he wrote: “For this cause, I will confess You among the Gentiles and sing praises to Your name.” And again he says: "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with His people." And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you nations.” And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be a root of Jesse, and He that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, in Him shall the Gentiles hope.” Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing in Him, that you may overflow in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are now reconciled and restored by the precious blood of the Lamb: in Him there is neither Judean nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female, for we all are one in Messiah. He who washed us and sanctified us and justified us in the name of Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. For Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and He was buried, and He rose again the third day according to the scriptures: no man can come to the Father except by the Messiah. So come, let us return to YAHUAH [the LORD]; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has smitten us, and He will bind us up. After two days will He revive us, and in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.
Today, my Beloved is mine and I am His. I am betrothed forever to the only begotten Son of God, in righteousness, and in judgment, in lovingkindness, and in compassion. Even in faithfulness. He made me a virtuous woman, completely covered in His righteousness, written in the Lamb's book of life, that we may enter through the gates of that great city of the living God, mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem — and intimately know the one and true God, and His beloved Son Jesus Christ [Yahusha ha'Mashiach] whom He has sent.
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called ['invited'] unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” (Revelation 19:7-9)
‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿
My dear friend, there is a family, a Divine Family. A safe place — a place of refuge, of peace, of love, of joy and rest. The Good Shepherd’s calling for His sheep to return before it’s too late. Can you hear His still soft voice? Come. Everyone that is of the truth, hears His voice...
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and My Father are one.” (John 10:27-30)