Two nights ago I watched the limited Netflix series, Unorthodox. It is a TV adaptation of Deborah Feldman's 2012 autobiography Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. Esty the lead character is a 19 year old Jewish woman who knew she was different but without any reference point as to why, had to accept her perceived fate to marry a man she doesn't want and raise a family. The marriage was arranged and she was sorely unhappy among the ultra-Orthodox community in New York where she lived. A year into the marriage, she runs away to Berlin, where her estranged mother lives and tries to navigate a new life. Esty discovering a secular life outside her community gives her so much culture shock while at the same time she experiences such inner peace and freedom because she rejected all the beliefs she grew up with.
Society wires us or to think that if we act likably we will be liked, and somehow, we unconsciously project that on to God.
Hebrew 4:16 gets me every time - it is an absolutely mind blowing invitation to come unashamed, unafraid and freely, to share any and everything with Him.
NO PERFECTION REQUIRED!
We don’t need to be formal and prim and proper - we only just need to come as we are. Confident that He will NEVER reject us or make us feel like we don’t quite fit in. When we come like this, then we can access GRACE (getting the things we don’t deserve) and MERCY (not getting the things we deserve) in our time of weakness.
How good is that?! Who else can make and deliver a promise like this?
What a good read!
Society wires us or to think that if we act likably we will be liked, and somehow, we unconsciously project that on to God.
Hebrew 4:16 gets me every time - it is an absolutely mind blowing invitation to come unashamed, unafraid and freely, to share any and everything with Him.
NO PERFECTION REQUIRED!
We don’t need to be formal and prim and proper - we only just need to come as we are. Confident that He will NEVER reject us or make us feel like we don’t quite fit in. When we come like this, then we can access GRACE (getting the things we don’t deserve) and MERCY (not getting the things we deserve) in our time of weakness.
How good is that?! Who else can make and deliver a promise like this?