The Significant Name of God (11)
The unique ‘BEING’ of God – by nature we cannot
comprehend it
André H. Roosma
26 May 2020 (NL original: 8 Jan. 2015)
In a previous
article I talked about the connection of the glorious Name of God,
YaHUaH, to the old Hebrew verb hawah - te be (there), to live,
to breathe, to happen, to come about, to come into being.1
A discussion about “To be”: a puzzling verb, in the
‘Applied Linguistics’ group of LinkedIn™, confronted me with how
puzzling and peculiar the verb to be is. Have you ever noticed that
various conjugations of this verb – such as: am, is,
are, was, were – do not at all resemble the root
to be? That’s correct, because most of these forms originally come from
completely different verbs. Some come from from the Old English form:
wesan (also known in German and Dutch: wesen), from Proto-Germanic wesaną - to abode. And the
Englisch root to be and its conjugation been comes from the
Proto-Germanic beuną - to exist, to grow, to become, to come
about, to appear. This is also the original form of the Dutch conjugation
(ik) ben - I am. There, too, we see conjugations that strongly
deviate from the root. And this phenomenon appears to occur in many more
languages. The different forms that we still encounter in many European
languages appear to be based on no fewer than four ancient
Proto-Indo-European roots.2
So we once had multiple verbs that have become, as it were, confused and
merged into all those conjugations of our present verb to be.
I was just wondering: could all this confusion, all this irregularity,
around our expression of being, have anything to do with the fact that
we cannot really get a handle on the depth of being there, that
being there that originates in God and that we see reflected in His
Name YaHUaH...?
Only in Him, that is to say: in close relationship with Him,
we will gradually discover something of that being. The wonderful thing
is that this gives energy, initiative and peace at the same time.
When we reside in Him Who IS, our actions are no longer dictated by
fear, by our old deficiencies or by demands from our environment. We are
already, so we don’t have to profile ourselves so fervently by all kind of
actions. So we have the space to see what God is doing, and can join in, just
as Jesus did.3 The result is a calmer life – more attuned to
and in harmony with God.
Hallelu YaH !
Notes
| 1 |
The names in the Bible have meaning. That is why I
transliterate them carefully so that they remain recognizable. Especially
the glorious Name of God I represent here as accurately as possible from the
oldest Hebrew original, instead of replacing this grand personal Name of The
Most High by a common word, such as ‘Lord’. For more background
information see:
André H. Roosma, ‘Life, security and belonging in joyful adoration,
from the hand of God’  , brief Hallelu-YaH article about the Biblical Name of God in the earliest
Hebrew (old Semitic) script, January 2011.
André H. Roosma, ‘The Shema‘
– the First Testament declaration of faith (1)’, Hallelu-YaH! web article, February 2012.
André H. Roosma, ‘The
wonderful and lovely Name of the God Who was there, Who is there, and Who
will be there’ , extensive Accede! / Hallelu-YaH! study, July 2009. |
| 2 |
Those four are: *es- (*h1es-; from this comes the conjugation (he) is, but also Latin
est), *sta- (*steh2-), *wes-
(=> wesan - to aobde, see above) and *bhu- (*bhuh2-;
or *bhew- - to become; from this:
the English to be). |
| 3 |
See John 5: 19-20, 30; 8: 38; 9: 4.
See also the poem „I thought...” , at
Accede!, Feb. 1995.
That rest of that being in Him we can find by becoming more conscious
of His Presence, as in the Immanuel-lifestyle. |
See also the blog by Patrick Tomlinson: ‘The Importance and Value of ‘Being’’.
A quote: “Why is this subject of ‘being’, which allows
the space for something unknown to unfold, so important? I think the key reason
is that it is central to the process of our development, as individuals,
groups, and societies. How we are able to be with ourselves individually
and collectively is fundamental to our health. ...”
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