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Let us go on…if God permits…

This site is a collection of thoughts for what, God willing, will be my pivotal essay. The essay is to be entitled, Let Us Go On.  The essential concept of the essay will be that just as individual believers must go on from immaturity to perfection in maturity, so the whole community of faith in the God of Israel must go on from ever re-laying its foundation to the perfection of maturity to be able to stand together with Messiah as his bride. This is the message at the beginning of Hebrews chapter six and at the core of Ephesians chapter four.

My life is characterized at its core by my seeking through a Biblical journey to understand the process of learning. I believe that this life for everyone was from the beginning, and still is, for the purpose of learning to choose life with G-d, to have faith in G-d.  And this has come to mean learning to hear G-d.  It has come to mean learning repentance.  It has come to mean learning reconciliation.  And it has come to mean learning the need for and the process of universal repair and renewal.

I have been drawn especially to understand the process of the learning that takes place within the process of interpersonal communication.  The learning about learning that takes place in the academic theories of learning, while valuable, cover a limited aspect of the great challenge of learning that we face.  Academic theories usually focus more on the learning of skills and subjects than on the dynamics of interpersonal learning.  My Biblical journey has taught me to understand interpersonal learning in the first place as the interpersonal leaning that takes place between G-d and the Human Race, between God and His creature, Adam.

It is from learning how to hear G-d that we learn how to hear one another.  And only when we have learned to fully hear one another have we learned to fully listen to G-d, for this is what G-d is telling us to do.  There is a great mystery involved for us in the great challenge of learning what we have to learn in this life, but because G-d is our Guide we are able to do it.

G-d began to guide us in learning to choose life, to have faith in Him, by forming the family of Israel and giving Moses to Israel and by putting in the mouth of Moses words like these,  “Hear oh Israel, the Lord, the Lord our God is one.  Love Him with all your heart, with all your soul and all your strength in all you do.”

My Biblical journey has taught me that all the world is called to enter into the house of the family of Israel as children or, if not as children, then as honoured guests.  The house of Israel is the place of the Bible.   It is here that we can learn how to learn and how to choose life, by learning how to hear G-d and how to listen to one another in obedience to G-d, with all our heart and all our soul and all our strength in all we do.