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Free Write (Another "heart" verse- ongoing study)
1 star|3 comments|August 27, 2008|187 reads
 
Ahh...another heart verse!  8:2, I have spent much time and research on this topic- (for those of you that do follow my study I will not go into major detail here :0)
   I must make a 'free write' thoughtfull comment on this verse in particular- This verse puzzled me for some time - God always knows whats in my heart?  Why would He have to test it?  I can't fool God- He knows, right??   I understand Him wanting me to be a man of my word- (out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks,,,) but on further thought, the scripture points out "that he might humble you" and to me the only way a person can truly be "humbled" is by them personally seeking out whats in their own heart- the work is really once again on the individual to do the work- deal with the heart,  seek out the heart and change the hearts goals if it does not line up with God then make it do so with a strong gaol of possesing it, remembering what it can do when it is not submissive. 



8:1 "All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers. 8:2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 8:3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

 
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Clara garcia
 Clara garcia
August 28, 2008
i believe that the humbling of the heart is so important here because it speaks of trust. The Lord allows us to go thru things and trust that He is ultimately our provider. whether the Isrealites knew this at the beginning of the journey or not, i don't believe that they would have been able to trust the Lord in taking the promise land if their faith and trust had not been built up. the 40 years was for them not for God. Lots of times we tend to say we trust the Lord to have our backs but at those extremely difficult times that we have no control over, out of our mouths comes our real heart that sometimes can lack the trust and faith in the Lord that he can pull us out of it.
we see this in the Isrealites time and time again. out of their mouths comes a message of fear and doubt.
the important thing is to set our goals into submission to God, focusing on all the times that the unexplained mana fell on us to sustain us, and not going thru 40 years of the same thing until we finally pass that level in our lives. Humbleness reminds us that we are not in control and we were preprogramed to have need God to meet our needs and because he made us with that purpose we need to embrace it and not fight against it. trust it and have faith that he is the perfect guide.
Angela Davis
 Angela Davis
August 28, 2008
I caught myself doing something different because of this study- my body even responded in the same manner- (but because my heart has changed I had to verbally put it under submission) Things all around me are changing and others- family and even friends are having a difficult time adjusting to this inner now outter change- it is affecting even my children... I imagine that the same thing happened with the Isrealites.... It started with one person, than another, down to his children then cousins, in laws, then... it builds out but it takes time--- God wants to do that with us
   I beleive that we are in the end times and he is calling us all together and we all need to "bond" in one like manner- it needs to be a heart bond! I see it happening but I do not think we have 40 years to get there... it is still a transfering and it is still weird, and cool and lonely and awesome. 
Angela Davis
 Angela Davis
August 28, 2008
Note: I do not want to be missunderstood on the "lonely" part of my statement- so I will say it is lonely in the sense of sometimes it is just me or just me and I am grabbing my five boys and we are "hidding out" and just having moments of prayer and discussion of how we "get to be different" because God has called us to be different- regaurdless of the circumstance (my young men are doing so well that they are even keeping me in check out of love! - My youngest set of twins both called me on something out of love without either one knowing the other did... I hear them doing it even with each other... I have 5 teenage boys- reflecting heart change here at home, taking it to school etc... and ... well it does matter if you think about it.