Sharing Love For Sweden - Eva Haglund - "BLESS ISRAEL"

BLESS ISRAEL

by Eva Haglund, Sweden

I am thinking about what it means to bless Israel - to bless the state Israel and the Jewish people. Here are a few of my thoughts.

One way is to help ONE Holocaust survivor who is starving and to give food or to buy a present for a Holocaust survivor. 

To bless Israel can be to invite a lonely Messianic Jew for dinner or to have a cup of coffee together. It can be to give food also for the Messianic Jews who do not have much money for food. Jesus prayed in John 17:21 that love will be a testimony to the world in Body of Christ. He talks about love to each other in John 15:12, "This is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you."

I do not think He means just in a church building. I believe the church is made up of Christians, with Jesus as the head. We all need each other in the Body. Friendship is not just in a building, but rather  the "hand" needs the "foot" and so on. All with the same value. In Gal.3:28 is written that we are all one in Christ.

I think when Messianic Jews are blessed in congregations this also blesses Israel. Relatives will notice if they are given food. It is a testimony to unsaved Jews.

To bless Israel is to comfort Jews in different ways.

It is written in Isaiah 40:1, "Comfort, comfort My people." It can mean to both comfort all people who are not saved, to comfort Christians ( both Messianic Jews and Gentiles) and to comfort the Jewish people.

To bless Israel and "comfort" My people - it is important to think about that many people suffer today. Many Jews suffer and we can comfort with words, show compassion and take time talking with people. Comfort is to know that somebody has time to listen, somebody has time in a world of much stress. Comfort can also be done by counseling people.

In the Body of Christ there needs today to be more fellowship and friendship. Now I believe it is a time of a restoration, as done in Acts.2:46; eating together and having fellowship as Jesus also had with the disciples in John 21, when they were eating breakfast at the sea.

Jesus wants to be a Friend, not just someone we work for. He and our heavenly Daddy has fellowship together, as it should be In the Body of Christ. We need to be more like a big family. As we become more like this, it will be a comfort for people, because care and love also heals.

To "comfort my people" I think is also to give the message about Jesus. He is the source of all comfort, as He is the Comforter. 

We need to open our hearts and also to give comfort to the Jews who encounter much antisemitism today. We need to bless Israel  - the Jewish people around the world and not just the state of Israel.

Give a cup of coffee or tea to one today.