Understanding God's Love in Time - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Network

one of the most famous verses in the book of psalms written by king david has such a deep meaning that is so often overlooked in psalm 136 everyone in the world knows this verse give thanks to god for he is good his love endures forever and that's usually that's pretty much how it's translated in almost every english bible his love is eternal his love endures forever so kilo allah is usually translated in that way but i learned a powerful understanding from one of tahila's best friends from high school she was diagnosed with a very aggressive breast cancer and she had to go through chemotherapy leaving her husband and her young children in a very hard state of limbo and i mean just talk about a prayer machine that was established around this girl and they extracted her eggs and told her that she was never possibly ever going to be able to have children after chemo and you know it was just a really rough ride and it was more than two years after that at their child's circumcision that her husband got up and said the verse and he explained it in a way that i had never heard before it says give thanks to god for he is good because his hesed his loving kindness can only be seen le alam in an expanse of time in eternity you actually see his loving kindness peering through the keyhole of the present our vision is just too limited but over time in expanse in eternity in the context of the whole only with the eyes of lit alum of expanse of eternity can we see his loving kindness and wow that message is so so real and that's the message right in time before the book of exodus when the jewish people are about to be enslaved for a couple of hundred years with no end in sight 200 years of slavery that's intergenerational slavery where the great great great grandchildren they lost the idea of freedom they are so lost and it's like wait ki you're gonna need a lot of time to finally see how things unfold you just need time in your life you don't always get the answer immediately you need the alum and the finale you know the book of genesis it's like the book ends off with the jewish people in egypt it's like really that's how we're going to end the book we're laying the foundations of the whole bible and we end off in egypt like that's that's the end of the story of the patriarchs the story ends off with all of their children lost in the exile far away from the promise of the land of israel on their way to slavery like what kind of ending is that i mean abraham started the journey with a promise to inherit the land and build a kingdom and the book ends with the people of israel fleeing the promised land and hunger and settling down in egypt like what an anti-climactic and like why is that the end of the story and this is so key and it's one of the most beautiful ideas and themes you see throughout the whole bible constantly the bible is taking us away from the end zone and the victory dance it's like we don't no that's not the way we live they're always taking us away from the goal of the story it's like the world is always so focused on results on the bottom line on the end zone and the torah is like a counter pressure teaching us guiding us away from the goal away from the final destination it's like the destination and promise that abraham was given is something beyond his lifetime beyond his son's lifetime the destination is like definitionally beyond them so what do we focus on we focus on life choose life that you may live because every day is a gift every day is an entire creation the journey of life is where value is the journey of life is where happiness can be found meaning if that's it's happening right now and it's like don't just wait for the top of the mountain there's a much longer journey to get there than a little celebration at the top of the mountain it's like achieving our goal it's in god's hands anyways but it's on the way to achieving the goal that life happens and the quality of our life is determined entirely on the days toward that goal and the book ends before the finish line making it to the promised land ends off in egypt because crossing the finish line is not the point the torah is guiding us to focus on how we live our lives on the way to the destination and that's that's that that is the theme across all of the stories of the bible i mean moses the whole the end of the whole book of the whole torah it's like moses and the children of israel are like at the end zone they're at the one yard line overlooking into the to israel and they don't ever go in the whole torah is about the covenant of the land of israel and finally fulfilling abraham's vision and the torah ends sorry you don't make it and only in the book of joshua do they go in it's like okay well even joshua he's told to conquer the land and he doesn't fully conquer the land and david is called to build the temple well he buys the temple mount and he gets everything prepared but he doesn't build the temple none of our heroes cross the finish line and it's like wow the heroes don't cross the finish line because life is not about the moment you reach the top of the mountain that moment will come and go most of our lives are spent on the journey toward the destination that's where life happens that's where the living torah comes to life and that's where the torah is telling us to live it's like on one hand we have the story of asav selling his birthright for the present and so obviously don't sell your future for the fleeting moment of now but at the same time don't sell your life now for some hope of the future that oh one day when that happens then i'll be happy oh and one day when this happens then i can really live life it's like every day is a gift live it up breathe it in every day toward our target every day towards zion every day toward jerusalem living focused and aligned toward the ultimate good is a gift shalom my name is jeremy gimpel a few months ago we started an online seminar teaching life-changing 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