This week while making bread, things were going along
just fine, however as I was adding that last ingredient into the bread machine,
  things changed, as I placed the yeast on the counter suddenly yeast was all
  over the place! (“Oh no, not again”). 23 hours earlier: I decided the
  make bread for our Hebrew class (a little end of year party) and I needed to
  open a new package of yeast, I noticed the package was too small to contain the
  yeast once opened so I decided to pour it into another container. Upon emptying
  the new yeast into the new container, the container moved and yeast went
  everywhere!  “Damn what a massive
mess”I said. I cleaned and cleaned, vacuumed, cleaned some more and thought; “ I
got it all”! Pleased with my accomplishment I continued on with my day



Present Day: How did this happen again? Yesterday
I cleaned so carefully, what had I missed? a hole in the container? Upon careful
  inspection of the current mess, I realized yeast spores had clung to the
  outside of the new yeast container. Their color blended in with the container.



You see I was so careful in cleaning the counter, the
draws, the floor, and the cupboards that I had missed the primary source of the
mess, the yeast container itself.


Life often imitates messes!


Paul talks about deception in Galatians chapter 5 and in
  verse 9 he says a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.


I now have a new perspective of this scripture, the
typical bread illustrations are good, but they don’t really get down to how
destructive and messy deception can be, either in an individual, family or in a
corporation such as a church.


A person, family or corporation can clean up mess after
mess and maintain a decent image, but those little spores of deception are
hiding, lurking in corners, and crevasses, biding their time for the day in
which they can cause another mess. Maybe not today or tomorrow but someday and
soon!  So it seems to me that the
next time we’re in a mess we need to seek God’s wisdom as to where the mess
began and cleanup the source as well as the periphery.  

 Tuesday marks the Holiday of Shavuot for our Jewish friends, some of you might ask yourself what does that have to so with Christianity? Well, it seems to me, there will always be Judaism without Christianity but there can never be Christianity without Judaism.

This is a Holiday that Jesus would have celebrated with his family & disciples .

Shavuot celebrates the coming of Torah, in Biblical times it was and probably still is  amongst certain sects of Judaism one of the 3 time a year when all the men of Israel were to present themselves before the Lord in Jerusalem. It marks the 7 weeks from Passover to  the Festival of First Fruits also known as Feast of the Harvest.  

The Rabbi's around the 2nd or 3rd Century CE connected the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai with Shavuot.

What really has received my attention this year is the reverberation of this revelatory process
Beginning in Genesis God reveals himself as creator, author of all we see and are;
In Exodus he reveals himself to Moses giving the law.
In John he reveals himself as creator, the word, Yeshua.
In the Book of Acts, he reveals himself through the Holy Spirit, with visual impact to those around.

Interestingly as on Mt. Sinai  Ex 24:17 ....the Glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire....
God revealed himself in fire,  Acts chapter 2:3 shows God once again revealing himself in fire, this time cloven tongues of fire sitting upon the 120 some odd people who had gathered waiting for the promise of the Holy Spirit.

And it seems to me that yet again we will experience the same type of imagery of the  power of God in the end times.   God will dwell amongst us revealing himself as the Bridegroom and Jerusalem his Bride

So this week as the Jews celebrate Shavuot, let's not forget that Pentecost is that same Holiday and let's all celebrate God revealing himself to us!