GOD’S All SUFFICIENCY by Raphael ben Levi
According to the founder of the Hassidic movement, the Baal Shem Tov, nothing compares to Hanukah because it is all about kindling light. What did he mean? To understand this one must differentiate between knowledge and truth.
Knowledge can puff up. It can never in itself bring us closer to God. One can be the greatest theologian yet be an empty vessel.
Yeshua declared Himself to be the way and the truth and the life. No person can come to the Father but through Him. That kind of knowledge will not transform us until we make it our own and then it becomes truth.
We may know the words but unless light is kindled, it is mere knowledge; the menorah light remains just something pretty. Unless we celebrate Hanukah with illumination we remain unchanged rather than transformed. Many people choose sameness in preference to choosing the pain of His scorching Light to burn up the impurities within us.
Hanukah teaches us that our light can only truly shine when we allow the purest oil to burn within us. When the Maccabees restored the Temple, they chose to rekindle God’s light, and for this, they needed pure oil instead of that which was defiled.
When we operate on the level of ‘pure oil’, it will always bring transformation. And, He will do things in and through us that is infinite and beyond imagination! When we allow God to reign in our lives, He pours His light upon us and nothing ever remains mundane again.
We must remember that when one embraces His Light the world will always close its doors. The parable of the ten wise and foolish maidens teaches us to keep our lamps trimmed and always filled with oil.
God is faithful and true! His light burns forever even when the oil appears to be just enough for one night.
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