Your Life Put to Use by the Almighty-Discover your purpose in Life!
Joel 3:2
I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.Joel 3:2
There are so many stories of people accomplishing things for God in their lives that they never thought possible, and the stories that follow of all the different people involved along the way who contributed to the end result. When you look back from afar at stories like these, the evidence points to the fact that there was Something greater than themselves at work behind the scenes; Someone with all the power of the universe in His arsenal, just ready to be unleashed in your life. God Himself! Don’t think that your life or the tasks God has put before you to complete are insignificant or too small to be important. Nothing could be farther from the truth, and no task when commissioned by God to you is small. I’d like to present you with an amazing story that will illustrate this for you.
Within the tapestry of this story is weaved many years of God’s Plan being carried out one person at a time, one moment at a time, over the course of thousands of years to bring to fruition the culmination of an event that all the world would look at, and that could not be thwarted even by the most evil of men.
Most of the time, the people who God uses to accomplish His Plan are completely unaware that they are even being used.
Israel has a very special place in God’s Heart. They always have. God calls Israel “the apple of my eye”. Since we love and serve Him too, we also are blessed as partakers of the covenant with Israel through the Blood of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). We admire and are in awe of all that God has done over the centuries with his people Israel, and we look expectantly to what He will do in the future with them. This is a story of 2000 years of waiting for a country of their own, a yearning for a homeland, and the expectation and “the hope” that one day they would be back in their land that God had promised them. The land God called Israel.
Israel had been scattered across all the countries of the world, they forever eagerly waited for the day when they could return to their land; the land that God had promised them. There is a Bible prophesy in which God promised He would bring His people “from the four corners of the Earth” back to their land. Way before even that, God had made a promise to Abraham. Let me clarify something, God never lies, and when He makes a promise, HE KEEPS IT. So, back to the story…
I’ll tell you the shortened version of this. The beginning of this little-known story begins with a prayer written in 1878 by a man named Naphtali Herz Imber back in what is now known as Ukraine. He called the prayer ‘Tikvateynu’, which in Hebrew means ‘our hope’. The prayer described the hope of the Jewish people returning to their land. The writer of this poem moved to Jerusalem moving to different settlements of people with a Zionist mindset, and offering to write anthems for them. The prayer he wrote in 1878 was eventually published in 1886 in a book of poetry and Imber’s poem was renamed ‘Hatikvah’, which means “the hope”. Even though Imber moved away from Europe, the prayer ‘Tikvateynu’ had still be recited and sung throughout the Jewish Diaspora.
So the next part of this story is of another man, a Romanian immigrant who chose the melody of a Romanian folk song and set the words of the new ‘Hatikvah’ poem. The melody of this Romanian folk song is oddly enough sounds almost exactly note for note like a Czechoslovakian classical song. The reason is because from there, Mozart took the melody to Vienna and Prague, and there the Czechoslovakian composer picked it up. The Czechoslovakian composer used this melody to convey a “patriotic” theme. (Weird isn’t it?) Are you starting to see the plan unfold??
Way before even this, the original melody originated from a Sephardic prayer called ‘Birkat Hatal’, written in Toledo, Spain. So really, the Jewish people always knew those words of “hope”. By 1948, the poem written as an anthem by Imber had become an “official” anthem in the Zionist communities. When WWII was ending in 1945, just 5 days before the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp, a Jewish Chaplain named Reverend Leslie H. Hardman, led the group of survivors in a service right in the middle of the camp. They sang ‘Tikvateynu! The poem written by Imber, and to the exact melody which evolved through various people, even the great composer Mozart!! God can use anyone. This story is actually a lot longer than I was able to tell here, but the point is that God has a plan, and uses many people to accomplish His Will.
To end this story, I share the report of Patrick Gordon Walker who stated that the the survivors of Bergen-Belsen knew they were being recorded, and they wanted the world to hear their voices! After what they had been through in the camp, singing like that exhausted them. The recording ends as the Reverend shouts, “THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL STILL LIVETH!”
From there, the rest of the story is history! This is how Israel got her national Anthem called ‘Ha Tikvah’. Don’t be afraid to use your talents and abilities to glorify the Almighty and take part in accomplishing His Plan!
God Bless you ♥
Ephesians 3:20
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,”Ephesians 3:20