Scriptures as a Doorway

I was having a conversation with a friend who gave an analogy of Scriptures "as a door we can open and see the wonder of everything" Yah created. I think that is a beautiful way to visualize it. Yet my friend does not think everything can be found in Scriptures, as in finding answers to our questions.  She sees Yah as a "mystic one".  That concerned me a bit at first but I think it is because we had different definitions of the word 'mystic'. To me it points directly to pagan mysticism. My friend clarified what she meant by asking if we can comprehend Him, as if to say He is mysterious.

Our Creator gave us His Instructions - His Owner's Manual - so that we would have everything we need to live according to His plan.  The first five books of the old testament contain His directions, decision making guidelines, decrees, instructions and teachings so we would lack for nothing and includes examples so that we wouldn't make the same mistakes as our ancestors did.  Every answer can be found in Scriptures - and it isn't always a fast and easy task. It's akin to searching for YHWH as if looking for treasure.  I have done over 200 studies in the past eleven years and every one has its foundation in Scriptures which eventually revealed the truth via His Set Apart Spirit.  I am convinced we, as Set Apart believers, can find the answers to all of our questions in Scriptures.

The Written Word has replaced the Urim and Thummin as our instrument of decision.

There are many things we have learned about our Creator, much revealed by His Son. There are dimensions of Yah we simply cannot comprehend as mere mortals in this day and age.  This does not mean we are not to search Him out.  In asking questions and continuing our study of Scriptures we are in essence searching for Yah and His treasure trove of answers.  We should see a mirror of ourselves in Job when he said to YHWH: I know that You can do everything, that nothing you propose is impossible for You. Who (am I) who obscures counsel without knowledge? Indeed, I spoke without understanding of things beyond me, which I did not know. Hear me now and I will speak; I will ask and You will inform me. I had heard You with my ears, but now I see You with my eyes; therefore, I recant and relent, being but dust and ashes."

We are still in the learning stages of our life and we need each other.  The gifts of the Spirit are different for each of us, but finite, and work together as a whole. In 1 Corinthians 12 we read: There are different gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different ministries, but the same Elohim. There are different ways of working, but the same Elohim works all things in all men.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various (languages), and to still another the interpretation of (languages).  All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.

The body is a unit, though it is comprised of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Y'shua. For in one Spirit we were all immersed into one body, (regardless of bloodline or nationality), slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

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Scriptures are a door and not everyone who opens it will see the path that lies ahead. Some who see the path will choose not to follow it.  In John 10 Y'shua says that he is the door and all who enter through him shall be saved. In Revelation 3:20  Y'shua says ~ I have been standing at the door, and I will knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with me.