Living Sacrifice

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

We are to seek the faces of God while they may be found and greatly revered among those faces is the aspect of divine Wisdom. Used in this context, Wisdom has little to do with thought; rather, it points to a posture of the intellect, which many call ego.

If thought within man is the tool by which thoughts are regulated--given order--then the mind is at war with itself. How, then, can comfort come; for that mindset a warfare whose purpose is death of the rational mind. We are not our own executioners. Comfort begins when we understand that our minds are to be presented before HaShem as living sacrifices: not as detestable nature that must die so that an unblemished thing might replace it, although that seems to be exactly what happens with the correct understanding.

The mind is to be presented as it is, not as we would prefer it to be. In Wisdom, we live our lives as living sacrifices. It's written that it does not yet appear what we shall be. How, then, are we to present our minds and bodies as anything other than what they presently are?

In the living sacrifice, it is understood that the reins of the intellect are to be surrendered to the charioteer, as is. Wisdom begins with recognition that the direction our lives take is not a matter fo  human will to decide. As living sacrifices, we are comforted by the reverence that will envelop us as The Name יהוה reveals itself within the way stations of our earthly experiences.

We are to take no thought about what we should wear, where we should go, what we should do or say. We are to trust that those things will be supplied in the hour of need. This covenant between the soul and its maker is called the new covenant, but that is based on a misunderstanding of the covenants made with the people of the book. "You shall have no other Elohim before me," is not a command, nor was it ever a command. It is a promise.