People imitate someone, dress like their role model, adopt their style, language, and path. Marketing firms immediately recognize this potential and hire them as influencers. This results in a spiral of ever more followers, superficially fueled by apparent inspiration, but also thanks to external influence. Long before algorithms decided who is important and who is not, someone spoke these words with a completely different intention: God Himself. Today, we chase likes, reach, validation, and in the process often lose our orientation. The first real “follow button” was not pressed on a screen, but in the heart. It was a call that led people out of the familiar into a new life: “Lech Lecha.” Not to become famous, but to come closer to the truth.
God says to Abraham: “Go from your land, from your homeland and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” It is not merely a geographical departure. It is a call to the human soul to leave behind the familiar, the habitual, the old identity, to follow a call even...
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I disagree on many levels. We ARE to fear the One who can cast us into hell. We ARE to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. The first sign of wisdom is the fear of God. My goodness, even the devils shake with fear. We ARE to be holy as He is holy…on earth as it is in Heaven.
2 Peter 3:12 :That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found SPOTLESS, blameless and at peace with him.”