The author of this website is T.L. Hobbs.
T.L. came to a saving knowledge of the Word of God around October of 2018 when she was told, “God wouldn’t like what you’re doing.” T.L.’s response was “Show me what you’re talking about.”
They read 2 Thessalonians 2:6. It was completely relevant and applicable to T.L.’s situation at the time.
The fact that the Scriptures spoke so personally and so truly opened her eyes to the Scriptures being relevant to her, even in this current day and age. Something inside of her shifted completely from this life-changing, eye-opening conversation.
From that point forward, T.L. became obsessed with knowing what the Scriptures said and she followed the Scriptures like a prescription to the best of her ability and understanding. The Scriptures became the center of her life- her gravity, her air- T.L. became obsessed.
In the Spring of 2024, while sitting in a Bible study at her Baptist Church, she was pierced by this verse from Esther 9:27-28. It was like a white-hot needle of lightning. It pierced through to the very core of T.L.’s being, and there was no ignoring it.
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Esther 9:27
Her pastor tried to talk her out of it and lull her back into believing that Paul’s letters were the evidence that “we didn’t need to keep the Commandments,” but the conviction went too deep. She knew the Truth now.
Through omission, she had been breaking the ordinance, even though it was not one of God’s commandments, it was an ordinance that all such as joined themselves with Israel should keep the two days of Purim according to the appointed time. This was an ordinance of remembrance to honor God for saving the Jewish people.
The result of this conviction was panic, terror, and an overall existential sensation of dread because she became acutely aware of how unprepared she was.
T.L. could not keep that simple ordinance from Esther, because she didn’t know when Purim was.
This opened up a floodgate because once she got home, she flipped through her bible only to realize how much other stuff she didn’t know.
All of a sudden, everything became clear: Everything in the Scriptures was completely meant for her, because her faith was calling her to graft into Israel…. and all of the instructions from Scripture are written for Israel.
She didn’t know when Passover was, or when Tabernacles was. In fact, she didn’t even know what the Feast of Tabernacles was.
She didn’t know how to keep the Sabbath day.
Then she noticed for the first time that keeping the Sabbath was literally one of the Ten Commandments! She had read the Bible cover-to-cover twice by this point and had not noticed that the command to keep the Sabbath day set-apart was one of the Ten Commandments!
For some reason, she had completely bought in to this idea that the commandments weren’t “for her” so she had been ignoring the truth which had been right there staring her back in the face in black-and-white all along.
T.L. didn’t have any guidance about how to observe the holy days. She only knew how to praise Jesus and sing Psalms. She had whole Psalms and multiple chapters of the Old and New Testament Scriptures committed to memory, but she didn’t know how to keep the Commandments or how to keep a holy day set-apart.
In May of 2024, T.L. kept her first Sabbath day set-apart with her son, who was 15 months old at the time.
Nothing woo-woo happened when she kept the Sabbath, but T.L. observed that she suddenly felt grounded in her walk of faith.
Keeping Sabbath felt practical. She has never allowed anything to interfere with keeping the Sabbath since then.
This is when her real journey of walking with the Lord began.
T.L. started to venture out from everything she knew. She quietly left all of her Christian friends behind. Their joyful presence in her life became warm memories, because she couldn’t continue to be around people who continued to eat pork and who didn’t keep the Sabbath day set-apart. It became too uncomfortable.
God’s Word instructs that keeping the Sabbath is a sign between Him and His people, forever.
The Scriptures teach that anyone who doesn’t keep the Sabbath, is not His, because they aren’t clinging to His command.
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:14
T.L.’s main drive in life has become to give God the most clear, consistent signals that she is doing everything she can to stand in His ways, walk in His instructions and observe His set apart times.
Last Thought From Me
Prior to that conviction from Esther, I had been meditating on this verse:
“That ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel.”
Philippians 1:27
Jews have the natural olive root.
The thought I was meditating on specifically was: My church’s doctrine should be of the same mind as those Jewish followers of Messiah. If the Jews, which have the natural root (deep knowledge and understanding of the Old Testament), believe that the Law is still valid even when they believe that Jesus is the Christ, then, my wild-olive thinking process of imagining and believing that the Law was done away with is the one that has to be in error.
The conclusion of the thought was: My thinking has to line up with their thinking so that we, as followers of the Messiah, are of one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel.
Torah has blessed me because as I follow in His ways, the things inside of me get exposed and that exposure brings healing. I had C-PTSD that was undiagnosed up until November of 2025. It was significantly impacting me, and I finally acted upon it to get to the root of it (by working with a therapist). Keeping Torah forced my C-PTSD to come to the surface in such a way that I could no longer deny it and had to face it head on and this has brought me so much understanding and insight into my character, my personality, my struggles in relationships, and my challenges with my thinking processes. If it were not for Torah, I would still be unaware, living in a state of denial about my inner world, and nothing inside of me would have changed.
Now that I am aware, I am able to actively choose how to handle myself.
It really is a law of liberty. A perfect law of liberty. My mind is being set free to enable me to serve the Most High God with all of my being, not just my emotions, but all of my strength, all of my mind and all of my purpose, on purpose. My C-PTSD is no longer controlling me on a sub-conscious level. My emotions are not driving me anymore. I am driving, while looking to Him for direction, guidance and instruction. Halleluyah.
A Vessel Unto Honour 