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Daily Devotionals
Voice of the Lord
Don't you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? (2 Corinthians 13:5)
I was visiting a beautiful old shul (synagogue) that I had not been in for over twenty years. The Jewish community had mostly moved away, so the attendance on that Shabbat (Sabbath) morning was not much more than a minyan (quorum of ten Jewish men). Since I was a visitor, I was offered an aliyah (the privilege of being called up to chant the blessings over the Torah). When I told the elderly rabbi my name, he told me that he had known my grandfather.
After the service and the customary kiddush (prayer of sanctification over a cup of wine), an old man followed me into the hallway and stood looking at me intently. He started to say: "You look more like ..." In my mind, I immediately finished his sentence for him, "You look more like a rabbi than the Rabbi" (with my full beard and dark suit, I had heard it numerous times). I was shocked, however, by what he did say. "You look more like Jesus Christ than any man I've ever seen." Hardly knowing how to respond, I stuttered through a brief conversation with him. I never found out who he was or what he knew about Yeshua, but this old Orthodox Jewish man had seen a reality that we believers often forget. He had seen Yeshua in me.
...walk conscious of who it is that dwells in me.
MM
The Voice of the Lord, Copyright © 1998 by the Lewis and Harriet Lederer Foundation, Inc. Published by Messianic Jewish Publishers, Distributed by Messianic Jewish Resources, www.messianicjewish.net. All rights reserved. Used by permission. No part of this article may be reproduced in print or on the web, or transmitted in any form, without the written permission of the publisher.