Haderekh Messianic Devotional

“...this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Philippians 13:3 As we get older it is sometimes easy to get into the habit of thinking how tough things are “these days”, and how great things were in the past, in “the good old days.” But, as someone once said, “the one good thing about the ‘good old days’ is that they are gone; they are in the past.” A simple fact of life we all have to and should accept is that all the “good”, as well as the “bad” days, and things that happened to us in the past are, indeed, in the...

“If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.”Mark 9:35 It is apparent that the majority of people do whatever they can to, as they see it, better themselves, their prospects, income, position and standing in the eyes of others. That is often manifested by how we take every opportunity to promote ourselves and raise our profile above our contemporaries so that we stand out from them. Strange then that when it comes to our spiritual walk, we can at times adopt what can only be described as an unreal, pseudo-humble mask - because we know deep down that such...

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of Yehovah.” Ephesians 2:8 When we first put our trust in Yehovah and in the death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Yeshua, as our Saviour, we do so knowing that we had to come, like the old hymn says, “just as we are, without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me.” At that point in time we realised that we cannot earn our salvation, but must simply accept it as the free gift of Yehovah, undeserved and unearned. However, often over a period of time, we grow a more earnings-based mindset. We then...

“I am the Yehovah of Abraham…Isaac…and…Jacob.” Exodus 3:6 After Yehovah introduced Himself to Moses at the burning bush as “the Yehovah of Abraham, Isaac and the Jacob,” He told him to introduce Him that way to the Israelites adding, “This is My name forever and My memorial to all generations,” emphasizing the covenant that He had made with Abraham and all his descendants. There are numerous places in the Scriptures where Yehovah is, thereafter, referred to as the Yehovah of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Whilst Abraham and his son Isaac were, like all of mankind, imperfect, Jacob is an...

“But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” Genesis 6:8 Noah lived in exceptionally wicked times. As bad as things are today, in Matthew 24:27-38 we read that Yeshua said that just like it was during Noah’s lifetime, so it will be when He returns. The people were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, carrying on regardless of Noah taking many years to build the ark, whilst constantly warning them about the coming rain and floods. Similarly, today we can preach about the end times, of people’s need for Yeshua and His soon return, but we are largely ignored, and people’s...

“…I have found David…, a man after my own heart.” Acts 13:22 It can be easy for us to think of David as some saintly figure. After all, he wrote so many beautiful Psalms, praising Yehovah - whilst also, at times, bemoaning his lot because so much of his life was in turmoil. He rose from the obscurity of being the overlooked ‘lad’, who was left out in the fields minding sheep, to slaying Goliath, becoming the people’s hero, killing thousands of their enemies’ soldiers to be crowned king of Israel and a great grandfather of Yeshua. In Acts 13:22 we read that Yehovah called him ‘a man after...