The Refrain:

A Rippling upon the Waters

Before we call, the Father answers. Ministering beyond sight and sound, he cradles his angels in the gift of his Spirit, which coils and wraps around us: not as we are, but as he is, sustaining the life that began in us with the gift of his Breath. As the Father has life in himself, so has he given us to have life in ourselves, and to quicken whom we will, so long as we abide in the Father as Son.

It is the Father's good pleasure that it should be so. The gifts and callings of Elohim are without repentance, and HaShem has determined to win our loyalty with love, and not with sanctions or compulsions. Is the winnowing fan greater than the arm that wields it? Is it capable of resisting the hand that stretches out to take it from its place? It is not. We will be satisfied with the goodness of HaShem hwhy; and we will rejoice as the tears dry upon our cheeks.

HaMashiyach is the unfailing Spirit of HaShem hwhy, which binds the creature and the Creator, pairing the living soul with the living Father in the grand tango of everlasting life. From time to time as King Messiah, HaShem sends forth some in surrogacy, to accomplish specific tasks, to deliver specific messages, or to orchestrate the impacts of future judgments. All such servants are most holy; and among them, there has not arisen a greater than Yahuchanan, who became known as John Baptist in the fullness of time.

Should you wonder how Yahuchanan could be the greatest of his kind, whereas he openly admitted to a contemporary greater than himself standing in the midst of those to whom he ministered, the answer is two-fold.

First, Y'shua was not born of a woman. He was born of himself, as the scripture hints when it asks if a woman could encompass a man. It is true that, at Y'shua's name, every knee shall bow; but this great rebbe, the Teacher of Righteousness, taught  that another is among us, yet greater than he. This hidden one who stands in the midst of all of us, resting within our hearts, is none other than Father hy, the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

As some from HaShem's right are sent to do his will in the days of transformation, so are some sent from the left. In olden times, Goliath of Gath was just such a one. The other-worldly threat he brought to bear upon Y'SharAL consisted not only of the physical peril any who opposed him would face, but also the dead-falls in the manner he framed the context; for his terminology was blasphemous by inception; and it would be difficult to answer without lifting the stench of erroneous perspective with every counterstrike one might make. A daunting natural adversary, his arguments mimicked the irregular proportions of his physique, and they established impotence in individual spirits and full-fledged xenophobia within the troops of King Shaul.