Are you bored with your day to day
mundane existence?
Are you wanting more?
If this sounds like advertising, it should, because this is an advertisement,
but not for a product or service.
What we are advertising here
is a relationship.
Maybe you know a Sam or a Sammy or a Samuel or a Shmuel, but do you know
about the Shmuel who may have had a life similar to your own?
You can read about him in the Jewish Holy Scriptures.
He lived in a time when the word of HASHEM was scarce and visions were
not widespread.
Shmuel was a young servant who helped Eli, the Kohen, in the Temple.
Our Scriptures tell us that HASHEM called to Shmuel and Shmuel answered,
"Here I am," and he ran to Eli and
said, "Here I am for you called me."
But it was not Eli who had called
him.
Again HASHEM called, "Shmuel!" and again Shmuel thought it was Eli's
voice.
After this happened for the third time, Eli realized that it had been HASHEM
who was calling Shmuel.
He instructed Shmuel to say, "Speak, for your servant is listening."
HASHEM did speak to Shmuel again and this time Shmuel answered as Eli had
instructed him.
HASHEM knew Shmuel's name and he knows yours.
He is not some far off G-d that does not care for you on an individual basis.
He knows you and he wants to have a personal relationship with you.
Shmuel actually worked in the Temple where he was able to make the required
blood sacrifices for the atonement
for his sins.
Those sacrifices put him in a position of being right before HASHEM.
The blood sacrifice, as an atonement for sin, was given to Moshe by HASHEM
in the Torah for our people in Moshe's day, for our people that lived in
Shmuel's day, and for us today.
Because HASHEM knew that our Temple would be destroyed, he sent Yeshua,
our Moshiach, from the line of David to shed his blood on the tree as a
permanent atonement for our sins.
If you do not have a personal relationship with the G-d of Israel, perhaps
he is calling you now the way he called Shmuel.
Perhaps he is calling you to accept the fact that Yeshua is the Moshiach
of Israel and to take possession of the atonement that Yeshua provided
for you.
Do you want some excitement in your life?
Why not ask the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob if Yeshua is the Moshiach
of Israel?
And then say as Shmuel did, "Speak, for your servant is listening!"
You may not hear HASHEM's audible voice, but HASHEM will answer you.