The Book Of Mysteries: Your Journey To Saving FaithSample

DAY 2: Aliyah  

“Come,” said the teacher. “Let us go up a mountain.”

So we did. There was nothing easy about it. I had to rest several times, just to catch my breath. Finally we made it to the top.

“Look at that,” he said, pointing to the panorama before us. “It was worth the climb. Do you know what it’s called in Hebrew, what we just did?”

“Torture?”

“It’s called aliyah. It means the going up, the ascent. When you read in the Scriptures of Messiah going to Jerusalem, you’ll find the word up used. And it was not only because of the physical terrain but because Jerusalem is the Holy City. So to go to Jerusalem is to make Aliyah, ‘the upward journey.’ A spiritual people must make a spiritual journey.”

“What’s the journey?” I asked.

“Your life,” said the teacher. “Your entire life is the Aliyah. It is to be an upward journey. Every day you will be given choices. Every choice will give you the chance to go lower, to stay the same, or to go higher. Choose the higher path, even if it’s harder, take the higher step. And your life will be an Aliyah.”

The Mission: Today, choose the higher step, the higher act, the higher ground, the higher path in every decision. Start making your life an Aliyah.