Haderekh Messianic Devotional

“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, Yehovah with us.” Matthew 1:23 Dr John C Maxwell, the leadership coaching expert, says the two things which will more accurately define you and your future than anything else are, 1. the books you read and 2. the people you hang out with. The content of the books you read can be summed up as what you input into your heart, mind and spirit. As the saying goes, “Rubbish in – rubbish out.” When the angel appeared to Joseph, who was engaged to Mary, the mother of...

“And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.“ Genesis 3:7 We have seen the instinctive tendency and reaction of the human heart is to cover up and hide every sign of failure, lack, weakness or inadequacy, ashamed that we so obviously and so frequently fall short of perfection. Not only are those shortcomings obvious to and even built into us by Yehovah when He created us, they are also so evident to all those around us that we are not as perfect as we may like to pretend to be. After all, they witness our lack of perfection...

“And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.“ Genesis 3:7 In the very beginning, Yehovah gave Adam and Eve freedom to eat of every tree in the Garden of Eden, except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But they disobeyed and, as a result, we witness what we now term as “the fall.” The immediate effect we witness is that they became aware of their nakedness; they lacked something, namely clothing to cover their bodies. Obviously, Yehovah had seen them naked; He made them that way in the first place. Until they...

“Did not our heart burn within us?” Luke 24:32 The first law of physics states inertia is when a body is at rest it will remain at rest unless it is acted upon by a force which causes it to move. We could also say that a law of nature is that people tend not to like change, and instead of moving forwards it is so easy to settle for the status quo. Too easily our instinctive tendency can be inertia, unless and until something disturbs our apathy and stir us into action. Some of Yeshua’s disciples had become accustomed to the life they had been living as His followers, even while awaiting what...

“Who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of Yehovah been revealed?” Isaiah 53:1 Let us consider two different ways to look at a situation. 1. The natural way. We grow up learning to use ‘common sense, which could be termed as the ‘normal’, natural and usual way to interpret information and, thereby, draw a particular conclusion. That method, in turn, dictates the way we react to something that is said or happens to us. However, that is only one way of looking at and interpreting that information. What happens when that information, or the conclusion we draw from it, is contrary...

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12 Imagine a piece of string. Now imagine, however long that string is, it represents the length of your life, from when you were born to the day you die. Most of us know the date and year we were born, and perhaps we celebrate it each birthday with family and friends as a regular landmark, or milestone. Perhaps the older we get the less we celebrate it, and the more we commemorate it! But none of us know the date or time that our natural lives on this earth will end. Nevertheless, if we were to say that...