We Are Each Created As Individuals with our own specific Genetics and our own specific Background
I really appreciate the word used in translation as “prescription,” (you will see below at ◆) with my medical background. God, as the great Physician (see Exodus 15:26, Psalm 103:1-3, and Mark 2:17), has an individualized “prescription” for each of us. That “prescription” is God’s purpose/intent for us, and our own individual purpose/meaning in life. The cognate permutation group definition for this“prescription” (what is “appointed” to us, our “allotted portion”) is:
- Impression הגג consider יקה weaken from age חקי my ordinance/prescription חקך your allotted portion cognate permutations (restrain/encourage).
Though you might look at this continuum/spectrum of (restrain/encourage) as “one size fits all,’ it would be better interpreted as being individually tailored to each of our lives. My life allotment falls somewhere upon this continuum/spectrum. Based upon the sins I have lived out, I need to restrain certain aspects of my soul, and I might be an encouragement to others with that same sin. On the other hand, a person may be indulgent in many areas and primarily require restraint, toward one end of the spectrum. Another may already be quite restrained by life circumstances, a disability or whatever, and primarily need encouragement. But we must recall that each one is an individual, just as fingerprints are very individual
We are, each of us, messengers/angels in the lives around us. We may encourage others in the way that we live, or we may be specifically called to encourage others, or to help others with restraint (this could be the uncomfortable position of confrontation). The LORD’s individual prescription for us, our purpose (which should be his purpose) is what God has fashioned as the plan for our lives. And God’s very personalized prescription will function as needed relative to the choices that we make in our own free will. Messengers come to us, and we go as messengers. I always think of the prescription for Yeshua/Jesus as well-described in Gethsemane, “Not my will, but yours.” His role was “to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37), as painful as that was to be. The LORD gave him the strength to carry out his appointed mission.
Perhaps the one critical thing that we should be learning from this life lived on earth is this word הגג consider. We, beginning in our youth, that time of “coming of age,” should be carefully considering the consequences of our choices, our actions. It is a lesson that we should have learned as an infant and toddler. If we touch a sharp object or a hot surface, we will experience pain. If we don’t carefully get our balance in learning to walk, we fall. We are “learning to drive this vehicle,” our flesh/body. We are undergoing our “driver’s education.” We have to consider how large our vehicle is when we figure out how to parallel park between other vehicles. We have to consider our position as we meet an oncoming truck on a narrow bridge.
This is our “body awareness,” which we might also consider as our “boundaries.” We can’t go around crashing into other vehicles all the time, nor do we want others crashing into ours. This is the learning process, and that must be based upon taking the time to הגג consider. Our tendency is to be “in a hurry,” to get to the point where we don’t even have to think about things, just doing things by habit, from the engrams in our brain we have formed by repeating things over and over. This is the most energy-efficient means for our brains to work. This is the “learning” process.
But there is also a tipping point, a point where we begin to take things for granted. We discontinue “considering.” Another way to put that might be, we discontinue being considerate. We think only about getting to the endpoint without being aware of the boundaries (this is the “me, me, me”). Every other person in our lives also has their own “boundaries” or “body-awareness.” Each one’s boundaries are a learned process. But how does my choice/my behavior affect the next person? If I have descendants, what impact do my current choices/behaviors have upon their lives? Much of this we are learning/have learned the hard way. We likely have a few scars, a few dents. But hopefully we have not “totaled” our vehicle or someone else’s vehicle. Hopefully we have not committed “vehicular manslaughter.” It may not even mean driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; it might mean ”driving under the influence” of our own self-centeredness. I hurt others. Why have I not “considered?” If you looked at post 14. Synthetic Grasp of Life, why do we not learn early on, of the equal and opposite reaction? Genesis 8:21 “… the imagination of man’s האדם heart is evil from his youth…” As God recognized this inclination in us, the cycles were instituted (Genesis 8:22) so as to avoid the repeat of the total annihilation of the flood.
We can recognize the need for driver’s education in manipulating a massive moving vehicle like a car, or even more rigorous CDL training for eighteen-wheelers. But we don’t like the training of God’s statutes חק for our life in the flesh. Boundaries are not our favorite when the limits are put on us.
Impression: חכ wait חק statute קח take; receive אך also cognate permutations(move ahead/hold back)
What are the boundaries? When do we “move ahead” and when do we “hold back?”
Impression דם blood; silent תם complete תן give cognate permutations (measure; determine limits)
- By the way, תן is the shortened, imperative form of the root נתן to give. (It occurs in this form because of the “weak” consonant נ dropping off at the beginning of the word.) The imperative form is the same usage as in English. You might take it as a command.
You might well notice in these two continuums a similarity in meaning – when we move ahead or when we hold back are a determining of limits, a measure that we must do in making our choices. And is it not interesting that in the two groups are “give” and “take?”
◆ What is Appointed to Me?
⦁ Job 23:14
14 For he will complete what he appoints for me,
and many such things are in his mind.
⦁ Job 23:14 more literal per BDB
14 For he brings to completion my ordinance/prescription,
and like them great with him.
⦁ Job 23:14
14 כִּ֭י יַשְׁלִ֣ים חֻקִּ֑י וְכָהֵ֖נָּה רַבֹּ֣ות עִמֹּֽו׃
♼ ♼ ♼ AKK – Impression הגג consider יקה weaken from age חקי my ordinance/prescription חקך your allotted portion cognate permutations(restrain/encourage) ♼ ♼ ♼
- See in the green box all of the roots in this cognate permutation group (a relatively small group), each important in the message. You might ponder/consider each one.
❶ being vital and active
⦁ Exodus 1:19
19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women (are) not like the Egyptian women; for they (are) lively (h2422. חָיֶה ḥâyeh) and give birth before the midwives come to them.”
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⦁ Genesis 1:20
20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living (h2416. חַי ḥay) creatures (h5315. נֶפֶשׁ nep̱eš), and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”
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⦁ Genesis 16:13-14
13 Then she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?” 14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; observe, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
▸ h0883. בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי ḇe’êr laḥay rô’îy; from h2416. חַי ḥay and 2416 (with prefix) and 7203; well of a living (One) my Seer; Beer-Lachai-Roi, a place in the Desert: — Beer-lahai-roi.
AV (3) – the well Lahairoi 2, Beerlahairoi 1; Beer-lahai-roi = “well of the Living One seeing me”
a well west of Kadesh, south of Israel
❷ running
⦁ Leviticus 14:6
6 As for the living (h2416. חַי ḥay) bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living (h2416. חַי ḥay) bird in the blood of the bird (that was) killed over the running (h2416. חַי ḥay) water.
- Think of John 4, the Samaritan woman at the well and “the living water.”
❸ cycle of living
⦁ Genesis 18:10
10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life (h2416. חַי ḥay), and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)
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⦁ Exodus 12:14
14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep (h2287. חָגַג ḥâg̱ag̱) it as a feast (h2282. חַג ḥag̱) to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall {keep it as a feast} (h2287. חָגַג ḥâg̱ag̱) by an everlasting ordinance.
❹ circle of organized people
⦁ 2 Samuel 23:13
13 Then three of the thirty chief men went down at harvest time and came to David at the cave of Adullam. And the troop (h2416. חַי ḥay) of Philistines encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
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⦁ Numbers 32:41
41 Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its {small towns} (h2333. חַוָּה ḥawwâ), and called them Havoth Jair.
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“First commandment with a promise” – long life
⦁ Ephesians 6:1-4
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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⦁ Exodus 20:12 חיי cognate permutations
12 “Honor {your father} and your mother, that {may be long} {your days upon} the land which the LORD {your God} is giving you.
⦁ Exodus 20:12 חיי cognate permutations (restrain/encourage)
12 כַּבֵּ֥ד אֶת־אָבִ֖יךָ וְאֶת־אִמֶּ֑ךָ לְמַ֨עַן֙ יַאֲרִכ֣וּן יָמֶ֔יךָ עַ֚ל הָאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ׃ ס
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⦁ ▸ Tanakh (3 results)
1. Vayikra 10:13 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וַאֲכַלְתֶּם אֹתָהּ בְּמָקוֹם קָדוֹשׁ כִּי חׇקְךָ וְחׇק בָּנֶיךָ הִוא מֵאִשֵּׁי י־ְהֹוָה כִּי כֵן צֻוֵּיתִי.
2. Vayikra 10:14 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְאֵת חֲזֵה הַתְּנוּפָה וְאֵת שׁוֹק הַתְּרוּמָה תֹּאכְלוּ בְּמָקוֹם טָהוֹר אַתָּה וּבָנֶיךָ וּבְנֹתֶיךָ אִתָּךְ כִּי חׇקְךָ וְחׇק בָּנֶיךָ נִתְּנוּ מִזִּבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.
⦁ Leviticus 10:13-14
13 You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, of the sacrifices made by fire to the LORD; for so I have been commanded. 14 The breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place, you, your sons, and your daughters with you; for they are your due and your sons’ due, which are given from the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
3. Yechezkel 16:27 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְהִנֵּה נָטִיתִי יָדִי עָלַיִךְ וָאֶגְרַע חֻקֵּךְ וָאֶתְּנֵךְ בְּנֶפֶשׁ שֹׂנְאוֹתַיִךְ בְּנוֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּים הַנִּכְלָמוֹת מִדַּרְכֵּךְ זִמָּה.
⦁ Ezekiel 16:27
27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
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⦁ ▸ Tanakh (7 results)
1. Shemot 18:16 (Mikraot Gedolot)
כִּי יִהְיֶה לָהֶם דָּבָר בָּא אֵלַי וְשָׁפַטְתִּי בֵּין אִישׁ וּבֵין רֵעֵהוּ וְהוֹדַעְתִּי אֶת חֻקֵּי הָאֱלֹהִים וְאֶת תּוֹרֹתָיו.
⦁ Exodus 18:15-16
15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16 when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”
2. Melakhim I 3:14 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְאִם תֵּלֵךְ בִּדְרָכַי לִשְׁמֹר חֻקַּי וּמִצְוֺתַי כַּאֲשֶׁר הָלַךְ דָּוִיד אָבִיךָ וְהַאֲרַכְתִּי אֶת יָמֶיךָ.
⦁ 1 Kings 3:14
14 So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
3. Melakhim I 9:4 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְאַתָּה אִם תֵּלֵךְ לְפָנַי כַּאֲשֶׁר הָלַךְ דָּוִד אָבִיךָ בְּתׇם לֵבָב וּבְיֹשֶׁר לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִיךָ חֻקַּיוּמִשְׁפָּטַי תִּשְׁמֹר.
⦁ 1 Kings 9:4
4 Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,
4. Tehillim 50:16 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וְלָרָשָׁע אָמַר אֱלֹהִים מַה לְּךָ לְסַפֵּר חֻקָּי וַתִּשָּׂא בְרִיתִי עֲלֵי פִיךָ.
⦁ Psalms 50:16
16 But to the wicked God says:
“What (right) have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your mouth,
5. Mishlei 30:8 (Mikraot Gedolot)
שָׁוְא וּדְבַר כָּזָב הַרְחֵק מִמֶּנִּי רֵאשׁ וָעֹשֶׁר אַל תִּתֶּן לִי הַטְרִיפֵנִי לֶחֶם חֻקִּי.
⦁ Proverbs 30:7-9
7 Two things I request of You
(Deprive me not before I die):
8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me;
Give me neither poverty nor riches—
Feed me with the food allotted to me;
9 Lest I be full and deny You,
And say, “Who is the LORD?”
Or lest I be poor and steal,
And profane the name of my God.
6. Iyyov 23:14 (Mikraot Gedolot)
כִּי יַשְׁלִים חֻקִּי וְכָהֵנָּה רַבּוֹת עִמּוֹ.
⦁ Job 23:14
14 For He performs (what is) appointed for me,
And many such (things are) with Him.
7. Iyyov 38:10 (Mikraot Gedolot)
וָאֶשְׁבֹּר עָלָיו חֻקִּי וָאָשִׂים בְּרִיחַ וּדְלָתָיִם.
⦁ Job 38:8-11
8 “Or (who) shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth (and) issued from the womb;
9 When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;
10 When I fixed My limit for it,
And set bars and doors;
11 When I said,
‘This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves must stop!’
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There is a great verse that helps to “say it all.”
Exodus 16:33
33 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take קח a pot and give תן an omer (measure) of manna מן in it, and leave it before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.”
- Know that מן also means”from.” May we recall that there is nothing that does not come “from מן” the LORD. It is for us to remember that of the encouragement we have received, we are to give a measure. And as in the restraint that he has shown us, we should also restrain ourselves. And … for your generations.
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Our allotment in life, what is appointed to us, is the learning of the “give and take.” Where am I? What have I learned?
I believe that I have been much more likely to “take“ than to “give.“ Time to הגגconsider.
And, how does (restrain/encourage) relate to your life?
Blessings, PG
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