Our Ultimate Fate

Amongst Bible students, there is often long and heated debate over a huge number of different interpretations and understandings of the Bible. 

I personally, am often involved is some of these and also at times surprised when they do become heated and personal.

Someone asked, is our ultimate fate dependent on the answers to these many and vexed questions. How important is it to know the nature of the Almighty and the nature of His Creation?

While I find these questions fascinating and worthy of great energy and serious study, I do not believe that the question of our 'ultimate fate' is dependent on the resolution of these issues.

Most who acknowledge the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, wish to inherit eternal life as their 'ultimate fate'. 

Most Christians would agree that this will occur if they are truly the brothers and sisters of Yeshua (Jesus). So what did Yeshua say?

He said his brothers and sisters are those who do the will of the Father. 

"For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” - Matthew 12:50

Sounds simple!

I think it is, but most Christians then want to argue about what the 'will of the Father' is.

Here I think Micah summed in up perfectly in Micah 6:6-8

"6 “With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"

I also believe that Yeshua was referring to Micah 6:8 in Matt 23:23, when he said these are “… the weightier matters of Torah: justice and mercy and faithfulness.”

Further, for those still not entirely sure, Yeshua was asked this very question - 'what must I do to inherit eternal life'?'

His answer:

"You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” - Mark 10:19

Here he was stating that to inherit eternal life we must obey the Ten Commandments.

I think though that another part of this question is how?

How do we 'obey the commandments'? How do we ‘do justice, love mercy and walk humbly or faithfully before God’?

In simple terms the answer is to have a 'circumcised heart'.

I love Moshe Kempinski's definition:

"... circumcision involves removing a covering. We believe that every human being was born with the heart of G-d. When G-d breathed His breath into Adam, every single human being had the heart of G-d placed within him.

But what have we done? Since our youth we have covered this heart with our own ego, our own needs, and our selfish desires. We have covered or hearts and separated ourselves from true equilibrium. This is why G-d asks us to uncover our heart - to uncover the heart of G-d that is already beating inside. In this way we re-kindle what is most natural to us.

... having a relationship with G-d is essentially returning to what is most natural. The Hebrew word for repentance, 'teshuvah' means 'to return'. This is a return to the original state of affairs, being in harmony with what was always meant to be. It is not something new to be attained, nor is it some higher state of consciousness. It is returning to what is already ingrained within every single soul and in every single heart. It is about re-establishing the divine connection set in place at creation."

For more details see ‘Siblings of the King: Living in the Will of the Father’ – at http://circumcisedheart.info/SiblingsOfTheKing.pdf  

And ‘Living The Way: The Path of the Circumcised Heart’ – at https://goo.gl/QV51tg