What Does Your Furniture Point To?
- Posted on AugamMon, 10 Aug 2015 01:21:29 -05002015-08-10T01:21:29-05:0001 17, 2016
- in Bible, Torah, Yeshua
- by Hallelujah Girl
Friends episode, 9.23, “The One in Barbados Part 1”, first aired May 15, 2003. Rachel is about to tell Joey how she feels about him, but they are interrupted….
Joey: I play Dr. Drake Ramoray.
Sarah: I’m sorry, I don’t own a TV.
Joey: You don’t own a TV? What’s all your furniture pointed at?
I haven’t had cable/satellite TV for several years now. I do use Netflix to watch television, if I am inspired to do so. So I was watching this particular episode of Friends (I never got to watch it while it was in syndication–I am a hairdresser). When Joey and Sarah had this conversation it made me laugh out loud! Then I slowly looked around the room…all my furniture was pointing to the television! It didn’t take long to remedy that situation! I only have a futon sofa and a chair, so Presto! Change-o! I long for everything in my life to be centered around the only thing that really matters!
The next day at work I had one of my weekly clients in. She is 87 years old and blesses me every week with her visit. While I was drying her hair I told her about the episode I had watched. She laughed as well, paused, then spoke, “You know, you can sit anywhere in my living room and see the TV.” So my next question was inquiring what she and her husband would do with their evenings before there was television. The answer to this question was kind of beautiful, sincere, almost reminiscent about her evenings with her beloved, “Before we had a television we’d read a book, or a magazine. My husband always read the newspaper… Sometimes we’d listen to the radio… Mostly, we just talked.” Makes me think of Little House On The Prairie. The Ingall’s family scenes at home in their little house showed them around the table, all busy doing something, eating meals together, singing, sewing, talking, reading, or homework. All portraying one-ness, Unity!
The message this past Shabbat, centered around this passage from the Torah, Deuteronomy 10:12:
“So now, Isra’el, all that Adonai your God asks from you is to fear Adonai your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being; 13 to obey, for your own good, the mitzvot and regulations of Adonai which I am giving you today.
If you notice in this verse (it should sound familiar), The Lord says this is for your own good! There is pleasure in sin, my friends, why else would so many people do it, be drawn to it? Beloved, the television today, is full of sin. Broadcast into our homes, feeds and babysits many children, and consumes valuable “family” time, allowing toxic nonsense to fill your mind and sometimes your heart. So what does your furniture point to? Maybe it is time to return to more simplicity in our lives. Yeshua says, “Abide in Him, His yoke is easy and His burden is light”. Look again at the verse above, all God asks us is to fear Him, follow, love, serve, obey…. for our own good! We do it for the blessings from the Throne! Yeshua (Jesus) states,
“The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one — I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.” John 17:22-23
The underlying theme in the book of Deuteronomy is Repentance. Yeshua states more than once, “Go! And sin no more”! This Glory from the Father was given to us so that we (His Bride) would be united with Him! This is how true “relationships” work. So that they (That’s You!!!) may be completely one! The Father is waiting for your “About-face”!
Notice in the illustration above, this is how the children of Israel camped and moved throughout the desert. Adonai camped with His people, in the center. His plan was always that He would dwell in us and be our God. Lead us, care for us, and speak to us with the voice of a husband desperately in love with His bride!
Also, this I remembered from Torah Study: According to the commentaries of the Chumash, in Numbers 24:5, when Bilam was praising the arrangement of the Children of Israel’s camp. He Says,
“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob; your dwelling places, O Israel!”
The commentary goes on to say: Each family’s tent was placed with it’s door facing away from the public path, thus preserving modesty and dignity. Further Bilam even alluded to the great power of Jewish speech for purposes of Torah study and prayer. “Tents” refers to the study halls and “dwelling places” refers to houses of prayer.
Once again we see families united and blessed! Bilam couldn’t even curse them and that’s what we was brought there to do. Adonai was protecting His people, perfectly!
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 says:
“Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one]; and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources. These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them on your hand as a sign, put them at the front of a headband around your forehead, and write them on the door-frames of your house and on your gates.
So beloved, what should your furniture be pointing to? Is it time for an “About-face”? Time for repentance? There is no room in the Bridal Chamber for those not in true unity with The Bridegroom. If Adonai is your Father, Your Husband, and Your Friend, it is in your best interest to know Him! Center your life around His Perfect Love! Know Your Bridegroom Yeshua, Messiah! Learn His Ways! Walk with Him! Teach your Children! All the time!
Happy Day!
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I really like the blog, “What Does Your Furniture Point To” and agree with it wholeheartedly. The only thing I disagree with is that there is pleasure in sin, While that true for those who love the world and don’t have the love of the Father in them, for those of (us) who have become new creation’s in Christ and have received the gift of righteousness though faith Him, and come to know and believe in the love the Father has for us and have His love in us and love Him, we have no pleasure in sin. For our delight and pleasure is in knowing and loving the Lord and keeping His holy commandments – of love, and serving Him. We don’t like or want to sin or do anything that would hurt, displease, or separate us from being in and having a close and intimate relationship with Him – our beloved bridegroom, for He is our first love and heart’s treasure our delight and pleasure is in knowing, loving, living for, being close in heart with and in unity and one with Him. John 15:5-17, 17:20-26, And whenever we may miss it and fail to keep His commandments of love, and the Holy Spirit convicts us, we in faith come boldly (in confidence) to His throne of grace to receive mercy and help in time of need and repent believing and acting on 1 John 1:8-9 so we may receive His forgiveness and be cleanse from all unrighteousness through the blood of Jesus Christ and have our fellowship restored and go on being conformed to the image of Christ and living for and serving Him to the praise and glory of God.
There is pleasure in sin, beloved! Why else would so many follow the wide open path that leads to destruction!
There is permanent pleasure! Freedom! In the ways of the Creator! Thank you for the additional scripture! Yeshua’s atonement for our sin gives us that One-ness with The Father! Continue seeking, for you will find Him when you search with All of your heart!