Faith That Pleases the Lord

We are living in exciting and challenging times. Things happening around us at times confound us and unless one has learnt the secret of trusting in the finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the cross, he/ she will find the situations/ circumstances too overbearing. A friend of mine asked me just this week how I felt with all the uncertainties especially in the light of the Middle-East situation and I told him that it is all within the purview of our Father in Heaven. Mankind can start something and unless God allows it, it will fall apart. Now I am not saying that it is God who did it, never! What I am saying is that sinful man, out of his own free will, chooses to do something evil. It would affect a few people but it cannot be widespread because our Father God is the Sovereign God.

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6" But without faith it is
impossible to please Him,
for he who comes to God
must believe that He is,
and that He is a rewarder
of those who diligently
seek Him."
Heb 11:6 NKJV

13"Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of the
law, having become a
curse for us (for it is
written, "Cursed is
everyone who hangs on
a tree"[1] ),
14 that the blessing of
Abraham might come
upon the Gentiles in
Christ Jesus, that we
might receive the promise
of the Spirit through
faith".
Gal 3:13-14 NKJV

As the "sash" clings to the waist of a man...

Jer 13:11 'For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to Me,' says the LORD, 'that they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.' (NKJ)

The "sash" or girdle (Heb. Ezohr, pronounced ayzor) was perhaps the most beautiful figurative mode of expression used for clothing among the prophets of the Bible. The girdle was wound several times around the waist to bind the clothing together. In Isaiah 11:5 the prophet said about the Messiah that "Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins, and faithfulness the belt of His waist." This essentially means that as the girdle has a controlling and binding influence over all of the bodily attire so these qualities have a controlling and binding influence over all of His purposes and actions.

Peter spoke about the adhesive quality of the girdle when he said "gird up the loins of your mind" (1 Pet. 1:13).
Clothing in 1st century Palestine was very simple. Jesus and His disciples were among those in Palestine who wore the simplest of clothing. According to Alfred Edersheim (Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, I, 625) the common male Israelite during the time of Christ wore 6 articles of clothing.

It was customary to wear a tunic and a shirt beneath the tunic. The tunic (Heb. ketonet) was usually "woven without seam" throughout and was tight around the neck with short sleeves. The shirt was a linen shirt (heb. chaluq) that was worn beneath the tunic. They wore a linen girdle, wound several times around the waist. There was also an outermost coat made usually of white woolen cloth with the four prescribed "tassels" at the corners which numerically calculated the Name of God. The description of the headdress is uncertain but we do know that no Jewish teacher of that day would appear in public with the head uncovered. They also wore leather sandals. Jesus said:

Luke 6:29 "To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. (NKJ)

Orthodox Jews today wear similar clothing but distinct in every culture yet in the whole world they all still wear the Tallith and the 'arba` kanephoth.