\o/ !HALALU Yah! \o/
Greetings in the Matchless Name of
YahShua !!
First, you only have ONE birthday.
Can a
man enter the second time into his mother's womb?
Ecclesiastes, the book
of wisdom that rails against vanity, says:
"A good name is better than
precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
Ecc. 7:1
Birthdays in Scripture
In Genesis 40, the pagan pharoah celebrated his
birthday by hanging his chief baker from a tree and letting the birds eat his
flesh off of him.
In Mark 6, King Herod had a drunken feast and
celebrated his birthday by chopping off the head of John the
Baptist.
Job's Understanding
Job was
a man who "was perfect and upright, and one that feared Yah, and eschewed
evil" (Job 1:1).
Job 1:4 "And his sons went and feasted in their houses,
every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and
offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, 'It
may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed Yah in their hearts.' Thus
did Job continually".
Job was concerned that by exalting themselves and
usurping the honor of Yah by celebrating "their own day" that his sons
may have sinned!
You might question that since it only says "every one
his day" that it may not refer to birthdays. However, another passage in the
same book is of interest in this regard.
Job 3:1 "After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job
spake, and said, 3 'Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in
which it was said, There is a man child conceived'."
Job, a man who "was
perfect and upright, and one that feared Yah, and eschewed evil", thought
that celebrating days of birth was cause for great concern of sin!
Is
there a reason that Scripture only shows birthdays in an evil light? In
Scripture, the only ones who were lifted up with birthday celebration were
wicked pagans who did not know Yah and others for whom there was concern
about sin related to such.
According to the 12/23/96 issue of US News
& World Report, "the earliest Christians simply weren't interested in
celebrating the Nativity...". The same magazine continues, "...They 'viewed
birthday celebrations as heathen'."
Early believers did not even THINK
of holding a festival in honor of ANYONE'S birth. The third century writer
Origen wrote in his Lev. Hom. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495 that ONLY SINNERS in
the Scriptures celebrated birthdays.
How can exalting one's day of birth
be harmful? Seek Scriptural truth in the matter.
To Yah Be The Glory
I Corinthians 10:31 "Whether
therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
Yah."
James 4:10 "Humble yourselves in the sight of The
LORD, and He shall lift you up."
A converted believer should not take
pride in himself nor should he exalt himself.
Romans 12:3 "For I say,
through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of
himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as
Yah hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
Matthew 23:12
"And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble
himself shall be exalted."
In everything we do the believer is obliged to
give all the glory and honor to Yah as we were purchased for a costly
price and our bodies are no longer our own.
I Corinthians 6:19 "What?
know ye not that your body is the temple of The Holy Spirit which is in
you, which ye have of Yah, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought
with a price: therefore glorify Yah in your body, and in your spirit,
which belong to Yah."
What is the spirit of a "birthday
celebration"? Does an annual "birthday celebration" give honor to The
LORD? Does one humble himself and give ALL glory to Yah in a
"birthday celebration"?
Ahava b'
YahShua
(Love in The SAVIOUR)
Baruch YHVH,
Chris
Barr, an underShepherd
little children of Jesus Christ
89 Homeplace Trail
Pocahontas, AR 72455
(870) 892-7843
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