What is Yasha?
Yasha is one of the four Hebrew words used in the Bible that are translated as salvation. Salvation is a major theme throughout the entire bible but unlike today’s traditional religious beliefs, it was never intended to be a "religious" word. As we look at the words translated as salvation, we find that they all have certain unifying themes and interpreted meanings namely:
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· deliver · rescue · wellness · preserve · prosperity · completeness · healing · soundness · and wholeness |
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(among other sub-groups that these could break down into.)
The word Yasha literally means to be in a wide, open, free area. This is the idea behind such verses as
Psalm 23:2,
“He maketh me lie down in green pastures”
Psalm 118:5
“I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place”
2 Samuel 22:20
“He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.”
These and many like verses refer to sheep being brought to a large, flourishing, secure pasture by their shepherd. This place is not entered in by anything you could earn or merit because it is a place of God's covenant of grace. Understand that this is why my first statement was that Biblical salvation is not about religion. Religion seeks to earn or merit favor, blessings and goodness from above by good works, lifestyle purity, being morally upright, obeying their rules and statutes, etc. "but God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom. 5:8) So Salvation (Yasha) is the manifestation of God's redemptive work of provision, love, grace and empowerment upon the undeserved who put their faith in a Savior both to bring them to yasha and to sustain then in yasha. This faith then empowers the believer by a true, living, and intimate relationship with the true, living, and intimate God to do good and live uprightly in a way that they could not before on their own. We believe as the Bible declares that Jesus the Christ (Yah-shua = God is Salvation) is savior and Lord, and therefore the true source of Yasha. Through our writings here we emphasize the depth of this salvation which affects our spirit, soul, AND body.
Certainly, our nutrition, our decision making, our stress level, our past, etc. all effect the level of health that we experience and these issues are discussed on this site, but again we emphasize that Yasha is entered into by trust, not works. Our trust, then, compels us to act in correspondence to manifest the health we believe to receive. Yet, regardless of where you are on the journey, you are welcome here to be inspired by the truths of health in all forms.
The word Yasha literally means to be in a wide, open, free area. This is the idea behind such verses as
Psalm 23:2,
“He maketh me lie down in green pastures”
Psalm 118:5
“I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place”
2 Samuel 22:20
“He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.”
These and many like verses refer to sheep being brought to a large, flourishing, secure pasture by their shepherd. This place is not entered in by anything you could earn or merit because it is a place of God's covenant of grace. Understand that this is why my first statement was that Biblical salvation is not about religion. Religion seeks to earn or merit favor, blessings and goodness from above by good works, lifestyle purity, being morally upright, obeying their rules and statutes, etc. "but God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom. 5:8) So Salvation (Yasha) is the manifestation of God's redemptive work of provision, love, grace and empowerment upon the undeserved who put their faith in a Savior both to bring them to yasha and to sustain then in yasha. This faith then empowers the believer by a true, living, and intimate relationship with the true, living, and intimate God to do good and live uprightly in a way that they could not before on their own. We believe as the Bible declares that Jesus the Christ (Yah-shua = God is Salvation) is savior and Lord, and therefore the true source of Yasha. Through our writings here we emphasize the depth of this salvation which affects our spirit, soul, AND body.
Certainly, our nutrition, our decision making, our stress level, our past, etc. all effect the level of health that we experience and these issues are discussed on this site, but again we emphasize that Yasha is entered into by trust, not works. Our trust, then, compels us to act in correspondence to manifest the health we believe to receive. Yet, regardless of where you are on the journey, you are welcome here to be inspired by the truths of health in all forms.
