This article addresses the challenges many face in today’s world, offering Scriptural guidance and practical advice for maintaining one's faith amidst adversity. By reflecting on the teachings of the Torah and the instructions of Yeshua, we provide encouragement and strategies for overcoming obstacles with grace and resilience.

In today’s world, many believers face intense spiritual challenges. With distractions, deceptions, and cultural pressures, it becomes easier to drift away from the foundational truths found in the Torah and the teachings of Yeshua. This article is a call to realignment, a return to the covenant, to embrace Teshuva תְּשׁוּבָה (repentance), and to authenticate our faith rooted in obedience to YHVH.

1.The Separation Of Doctrines That Contradict the Covenant.

Too often, we’ve allowed ourselves to be shaped by doctrines that contradict the original platform of how YHVH intended us to live daily, intentionally, and righteously. Many religious systems have replaced the covenant. Our relationship with empty traditions, breaking away from the commandments, tickling ears with comforting lies instead of truth. “This people draw near with their lips and honor Me with their praises, but their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment taught by men.” (Isaiah 29:13)

2. Cold Hearts and Calloused Souls:

Yeshua warned that in the last days, “because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold” (Matthew 24:12). We are witnessing this in real time. Many profess a belief in YHVH, but their lives are void of His Spirit and truth. Instead of surrender, we see self-promotion. Instead of humility, we are full of pride. The modern faith often reflects more of “me” than the Messiah. Like the seagulls in Finding Nemo crying, “Mine! Mine! Mine!” this generation reflects a self-absorbed culture. We’ve replaced the cry of “Here I am, send me,” with “What can I get out of this?” The Gospel has become a commodity, and Yeshua’s sacrificial call has been reduced to a slogan.

3. The Real Problem:

Sin is the disease, and the core issue of sin is our selfish desires, unrepentant minds and hearts, and we justify our wrongs to be right, and indulge in our flesh to satisfy our wants, all in the name of religion. Scripture is clear: “The soul who sins will die.” (Ezekiel 18:20); (I don't know about you but that dose not sound to good to me!) “Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4). Sin isn’t just a mistake it is rebellion against YHVH. And yet, many continue to sin, ignoring the call to holiness. Pride follows closely behind. Pride says, “I’m fine.” Pride says, “I don’t need to change.” But pride blinds us from the very deliverance we need. “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18)

4. We don’t have to sin.

The truth is, we don’t have to live in sin any longer; it's a choice for us today. Yeshua came and broke that curse to set us free from its power. “Everyone who has been born of YHVH does not continue to sin, because His truth abides in them.” (1 John 3:9). “Shall we continue to sin so that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2). Yeshua broke the chains of sin, and through Shekinah, the spirit of wisdom and truth, we are empowered to walk in righteousness. Repentance isn’t shame, it’s liberty. Holiness isn’t legalism, it’s alignment

5. The Rise of a New Disease: Opinionitis

There’s a spiritual disease running rampant in our time, it's called "opinionitis". It’s highly contagious, socially reinforced, and spiritually crippling. Symptoms include; Constantly saying, “Well, I feel…” instead of “The Word says…” Ignoring Scripture that challenges your comfort zone; Preferring teachers who agree with your opinion and drowning out the voice of wisdom of the prophets who correct you, Replacing conviction with emotion and truth with trends, This condition convinces people that their personal opinion are as equal to or even higher than YHVH’s Word. But the Torah doesn’t bend to our feelings, and Yeshua didn’t die so we could stay in “our opinions.” “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end is death.” (Proverbs 14:12). Until we detox from our opinionitis and return to the authority of YHVH’s Word, we will continue to drift further from His presence, power, and purpose.

6. A Call to Return

We must return to the covenant, to the fear of YHVH, and to a life of obedience and purity. We must weep
over sin again. We must hunger for truth more than comfort, for Yeshua more than ourselves. “If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from shamayim, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
(2 Chronicles 7:14). The call today is not complicated; it is costly. It requires a sacrifice called surrender. It requires truth. And it requires us to stop playing the part of harlots and start living the faith in obedience.