28 But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’ 39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. – Deuteronomy 3:28,39
9“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—
God gave us commandments so we will remember Him, and also we must it on to our children and children’s children. In Mark, I must believe in who He is and trust him because He cares about us.
Know that we all lose our way from time to time and fail miserably, but the God who loves us is faithful to rescue and redeem when we seek Him with our entire heart! Praying for you!
11‘You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom. —Love this image of God in darkness from Deuteronomy.
12And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” – sometimes I ask for signs. It is so interesting though, the amount of convincing evidence we have in THIS day in age, and we (I) still ask for more “signs”. There is SOOOO much evidence. We need to believe.
It’s a glitch in the system- some phrases and words are eliminated. I sent a note to their customer service and they are aware. You have to look it up in a Bible outside the program to get the full text.
A theme I’m picking up on today is the idea of “Remembrance”. There are several places where Moses tells the people to “take care, lest they forget” all that God has done for them. Even Jesus reminds the disciples of the two occasions of bread being multiplied as they worry about only having one loaf of bread. Praying that we have opportunities today to simply remember what the Lord has done in our lives & to thank Him, celebrate His work, and maybe share it with someone else. Let’s fight against forgetfulness.
So much good stuff in Mark 8! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees- a tiny amount of yeast Can ferment a large amount of dough! In the same way, people who don’t believe in God Can corrupt us so we must be careful. Deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Jesus in his FINISHED work. We don’t have to pave a way- that was already done for us- all we have to do is follow!
Deuteronomy— Obey God and follow his commands.
A review for the last generation.
Mark— I still do not understand the whole conversation Jesus and his disciples had later about the loaves.
I know he provides even when we don’t see it.
Lastly, he wants to strengthen our faith.
7For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 29But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Mark 8:34-38 is very convicting. I am reading from the message version. I hope you find it encouraging too:
34-37Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?
38“If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I’m leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you’ll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.”
I love the direction to embrace suffering in this version! This is a lesson I am learning in this season. I love that Jesus was a man of many sufferings, and that we serve a God who takes our burdens if we allow ourselves to give them over.
2 things that really challenge me: the command to sabbath rest. All the other commands we seem to care deeply about. We would never murder, lie, commit adultery… but a taking sabbath rest is unthinkable any more in our culture! I’m so convicted of my lack of focus to honor this command in my life!! It’s a top 10! Why do I act like it’s not even on the list? And 2) I’ve always been challenged by Jesus comment to take up our crosses. He said it to followers BEFORE he died on the cross. His statement means a lot to us because we know what he did. What did it mean to the people of his day? Was it an expression? Wasn’t a cross only for evil doers? I’ve thought on this a lot. Still thinking…
There is a great (short) study by Priscilla Shirer on Sabbath rest called “Breathe”. It was such a help to understand what it means to rest in God as a way of life. Things I continue to think upon.
I love this Mark passage about the bread. Jesus had literally just performed a feeding miracle for the second time and they were wondering what they would do about not having enough bread.
I marvel at this, but isn’t this just like us? Despite experiencing God’s provision before, every time a need arises we think ‘oh no what are we going to do?’ As though God has never provided for us or done anything. As though the provider is not literally in our midst, as Jesus was in theirs.
Jesus sighs (probably fed up with spiritual Groundhog Day) – and asks specifically how many leftovers each time there was. Twelve – which makes me think of the twelve tribes of Israel, and Seven, which I don’t fully understand the significance of, although it’s a key number for sabbath in the Bible, meaning rest. So perhaps Jesus is saying something like, why do we not understand that in our needs we should rest, because God provides for each of us.
Yes Kylie, He is always with you! Lean on Him, He is there for you, He cares, and like a good father holding tightly to a baby in a storm, I pray you feel God’s arms wrapped firmly around you during this tough time and always. Praying for your heart today, from another Kylee :)
I love being able to read past comments(like EG’s)…our God’s great
mercy and grace really stood out to me today…He doesn’t love to punish us for the sake of being wrathful, He loves to forgive us when our hearts have turned back to Him fully and He is able because He sacrificed His own Son, we could never hope to deserve that kind of goodness, how amazing that He never gives up on us…as a child I just heard about these stubborn and disobedient Israelites but now I’m so grateful for an example of His persevering forgiveness, even in the face of so much continued betrayal…help me love like you Lord!
Deuteronomy 4:29 “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul”. Moses is telling them that even when they stray REALLY FAR from God … He will be found by them if they will choose to search for Him again. If they choose to repent … and return … He will hear them and receive them back.
Going from Leviticus to Deuteronomy is such a change. Maybe because we are not reading catalogues of temple design, but wow I am looking forward to reading Deuteronomy everyday. I love how Moses and God are saying to the Israelites ” look, I have taken you out of Egypt, I have given you good laws and you have seen what it’s like to not follow me. I want to bless you so fully, but you need to remember me and give me the glory.”
This passage stuck out to me:
30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. 31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.
God understands our human nature to constantly be changing. I pray to always give glory to the father, but in times that I don’t , im thankful that hell recieve me back
I love both of these passages, they both really stood out to me today. God keeps his promises. He is jealous for our worship, he is a consuming fire.
So many cool little tidbits that I am not sure how to put words to yet, still processing. :)
I, like the disciples, do not understand what Jesus is saying in the section with the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod. Why did feeding the five thousand start with five loaves and end with twelve leftover baskets but feeding the four thousand started with seven and ended with seven?
The leaven (yeast) had nothing to do with bread. He was warning against listening to their words and letting it germinate in their lives and cause them to grow into wrong bread. He switches to talking about the feeding the 5000 and 4000 because that was what the close minded apostles thought he meant. He was showing them just how little faith and understanding they truly had. And the amount of leftover bread is unimportant; what is important was that Jesus could provide food for them, even though they lacked faith.
What Jesus meant was not to let the teachings of the Pharisees corrupt them. They misunderstood it, thinking He meant them not having bread with them.
In man’s scheme of things, it should take more loaves to feed more people. But this is not so with God. It took fewer loaves to feed more people. This is God’s way of telling us that the “bigger” the problem, the “easier” it is for Him. :)
I would disagree that the amount of leftover bread is unimportant- everything in the Bible is living and breathing and here for a purpose. 12 could be a reference to the tribes of Isreal, or of the disciples, or both. 7 may be a reference to completion- how many days it took God to complete His creation of the heavens and earth.
I was struck with the personal nature of God. First in deut. when he talks about meeting the the Israelites, then in mark when Jesus specifically asked 29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”.
He cares about the individual. Beautiful
So much stood out while I was reading Deuteronomy today.
The verse about not adding or taking away from the lords commands struck me. I knew it was there but I guess it hit me in a different way because passover just happened.
My husband is a messianic Jew but his family is orthodox, so I see a lot of this adding and taking away first hand. It’s frustrating at times but it sometimes opens the floor up for discussion and leads to some truth being shared.
Next verse that struck me harder was
20 But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.
What a powerful image of God taking the Israelites (us) out of Egypt (the world/sin).
We fail so often to realize how big and great our God is and how he works in our lives just like the Israelites forgot and complained so often. It’s easy to read the OT and see how Israel fails and it makes me cringe and yet they are me every time.
How good is our God that he removed us from an iron-smelting furnace of death and redeemed us and made us to be apart of his kingdom!
Two things stood out. One is the story about the breaking of the bread. This is a testimony to me about tithing. We tithe even when we think we don’t have enough, and we always do. We give him what we have, and in his kingdom, he multiplies it, and we still walk away with more than enough.
The other is mercy. What a merciful God we serve….
Such truth in today’s reading! As I sit here feeding my 5 month old girl, I bookmarked SO many verses to underline in my bible later–things that I can’t wait to share with her and want her to have imprinted on her heart! Happy Friday and blessings ladies!
Yes! I kept hearing that theme of ‘don’t forget’ and ‘tell your children’ of all God has done and continues to do. Being a new mom puts all of into perspective and makes me so much more aware of my responsibility to pass this knowledge on. To make it part of our daily life and conversations, like it says in 6:7-9!
Great reflections.
10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
What a great reminder that so much I have is not by my own strength but a blessing from the Lord. He multiplied their bread and fish. He is so good from generation to generation!
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.
These words are powerful. As so many of us have to step out into the world it can be easy to forget that Gods name needs to be fought for. There are so many idols, so many things that compete for our attention. Yet God asks us to boldly live and speak on his behalf…we get to represent a loving, jealous, merciful and holy God!
Deuteronomy 4:39
know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
I have struggled with doubt a lot in the last few years. I don’t understand why, as I have seen God work in mighty ways in my life, but I have still been plagued with questions like “what if it’s all just not real?” So this verse is my prayer, that I would KNOW that the Lord is God.
7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?
Love this verse. God is near when we reach out to Him. Even when we feel He doesn’t hear. He is El Roi, the God who sees and hears us.
29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear?
Both God and Jesus saw that the people They cared the most about did not have their hearts committed to knowing Them. How frustrating that must have been, to give so much for so long and still not have the recipients of your love, blessings and teachings fully involved with you.
How sad that it is still true today.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’ 39 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. – Deuteronomy 3:28,39
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God shows himself full of mercy- He is not forceful and harsh.
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Mark 8:36-38
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9“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—
100 days!
God gave us commandments so we will remember Him, and also we must it on to our children and children’s children. In Mark, I must believe in who He is and trust him because He cares about us.
Know that we all lose our way from time to time and fail miserably, but the God who loves us is faithful to rescue and redeem when we seek Him with our entire heart! Praying for you!
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11‘You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom. —Love this image of God in darkness from Deuteronomy.
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12And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.” – sometimes I ask for signs. It is so interesting though, the amount of convincing evidence we have in THIS day in age, and we (I) still ask for more “signs”. There is SOOOO much evidence. We need to believe.
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I’m not understanding why in the Old Testament chapters that there is LordLord in some places.
It’s a glitch in the system- some phrases and words are eliminated. I sent a note to their customer service and they are aware. You have to look it up in a Bible outside the program to get the full text.
A theme I’m picking up on today is the idea of “Remembrance”. There are several places where Moses tells the people to “take care, lest they forget” all that God has done for them. Even Jesus reminds the disciples of the two occasions of bread being multiplied as they worry about only having one loaf of bread. Praying that we have opportunities today to simply remember what the Lord has done in our lives & to thank Him, celebrate His work, and maybe share it with someone else. Let’s fight against forgetfulness.
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So much good stuff in Mark 8! Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees- a tiny amount of yeast Can ferment a large amount of dough! In the same way, people who don’t believe in God Can corrupt us so we must be careful. Deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Jesus in his FINISHED work. We don’t have to pave a way- that was already done for us- all we have to do is follow!
Deuteronomy— Obey God and follow his commands.
A review for the last generation.
Mark— I still do not understand the whole conversation Jesus and his disciples had later about the loaves.
I know he provides even when we don’t see it.
Lastly, he wants to strengthen our faith.
39know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. -ellie
And the Lord commanded us to do these statutes, to fear the Lord, for our good always.
7For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 29But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Love this
Wow, so much in these verses today! God, let your word be written in my heart. Expose the idols I’ve worshiped. I only want you!
Yes!!!!
Mark 8:34-38 is very convicting. I am reading from the message version. I hope you find it encouraging too:
34-37Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?
38“If any of you are embarrassed over me and the way I’m leading you when you get around your fickle and unfocused friends, know that you’ll be an even greater embarrassment to the Son of Man when he arrives in all the splendor of God, his Father, with an army of the holy angels.”
I love the direction to embrace suffering in this version! This is a lesson I am learning in this season. I love that Jesus was a man of many sufferings, and that we serve a God who takes our burdens if we allow ourselves to give them over.
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2 things that really challenge me: the command to sabbath rest. All the other commands we seem to care deeply about. We would never murder, lie, commit adultery… but a taking sabbath rest is unthinkable any more in our culture! I’m so convicted of my lack of focus to honor this command in my life!! It’s a top 10! Why do I act like it’s not even on the list? And 2) I’ve always been challenged by Jesus comment to take up our crosses. He said it to followers BEFORE he died on the cross. His statement means a lot to us because we know what he did. What did it mean to the people of his day? Was it an expression? Wasn’t a cross only for evil doers? I’ve thought on this a lot. Still thinking…
There is a great (short) study by Priscilla Shirer on Sabbath rest called “Breathe”. It was such a help to understand what it means to rest in God as a way of life. Things I continue to think upon.
I love this Mark passage about the bread. Jesus had literally just performed a feeding miracle for the second time and they were wondering what they would do about not having enough bread.
I marvel at this, but isn’t this just like us? Despite experiencing God’s provision before, every time a need arises we think ‘oh no what are we going to do?’ As though God has never provided for us or done anything. As though the provider is not literally in our midst, as Jesus was in theirs.
Jesus sighs (probably fed up with spiritual Groundhog Day) – and asks specifically how many leftovers each time there was. Twelve – which makes me think of the twelve tribes of Israel, and Seven, which I don’t fully understand the significance of, although it’s a key number for sabbath in the Bible, meaning rest. So perhaps Jesus is saying something like, why do we not understand that in our needs we should rest, because God provides for each of us.
Lord let me take this passage to heart!
Amen! Love this, thank you for sharing!
I’m going through a really tough time right now. God has reminded me through this that he is always with me
Yes Kylie, He is always with you! Lean on Him, He is there for you, He cares, and like a good father holding tightly to a baby in a storm, I pray you feel God’s arms wrapped firmly around you during this tough time and always. Praying for your heart today, from another Kylee :)
So glad God reminded me of His faithfulness to the Israelites in these passages today. If He was faithful to them, He will also be faithful to me.
I have never bookmarked as many passages as I did today!
Same!
I love being able to read past comments(like EG’s)…our God’s great
mercy and grace really stood out to me today…He doesn’t love to punish us for the sake of being wrathful, He loves to forgive us when our hearts have turned back to Him fully and He is able because He sacrificed His own Son, we could never hope to deserve that kind of goodness, how amazing that He never gives up on us…as a child I just heard about these stubborn and disobedient Israelites but now I’m so grateful for an example of His persevering forgiveness, even in the face of so much continued betrayal…help me love like you Lord!
Deuteronomy 4:29 “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul”. Moses is telling them that even when they stray REALLY FAR from God … He will be found by them if they will choose to search for Him again. If they choose to repent … and return … He will hear them and receive them back.
Going from Leviticus to Deuteronomy is such a change. Maybe because we are not reading catalogues of temple design, but wow I am looking forward to reading Deuteronomy everyday. I love how Moses and God are saying to the Israelites ” look, I have taken you out of Egypt, I have given you good laws and you have seen what it’s like to not follow me. I want to bless you so fully, but you need to remember me and give me the glory.”
This passage stuck out to me:
30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. 31 For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.
God understands our human nature to constantly be changing. I pray to always give glory to the father, but in times that I don’t , im thankful that hell recieve me back
I love both of these passages, they both really stood out to me today. God keeps his promises. He is jealous for our worship, he is a consuming fire.
So many cool little tidbits that I am not sure how to put words to yet, still processing. :)
I, like the disciples, do not understand what Jesus is saying in the section with the yeast of the Pharisees and Herod. Why did feeding the five thousand start with five loaves and end with twelve leftover baskets but feeding the four thousand started with seven and ended with seven?
The leaven (yeast) had nothing to do with bread. He was warning against listening to their words and letting it germinate in their lives and cause them to grow into wrong bread. He switches to talking about the feeding the 5000 and 4000 because that was what the close minded apostles thought he meant. He was showing them just how little faith and understanding they truly had. And the amount of leftover bread is unimportant; what is important was that Jesus could provide food for them, even though they lacked faith.
What Jesus meant was not to let the teachings of the Pharisees corrupt them. They misunderstood it, thinking He meant them not having bread with them.
In man’s scheme of things, it should take more loaves to feed more people. But this is not so with God. It took fewer loaves to feed more people. This is God’s way of telling us that the “bigger” the problem, the “easier” it is for Him. :)
I would disagree that the amount of leftover bread is unimportant- everything in the Bible is living and breathing and here for a purpose. 12 could be a reference to the tribes of Isreal, or of the disciples, or both. 7 may be a reference to completion- how many days it took God to complete His creation of the heavens and earth.
I have also heard the 7 represents the 7 nations at the time
I was struck with the personal nature of God. First in deut. when he talks about meeting the the Israelites, then in mark when Jesus specifically asked 29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”.
He cares about the individual. Beautiful
29 But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. I love that ❤️
So much stood out while I was reading Deuteronomy today.
The verse about not adding or taking away from the lords commands struck me. I knew it was there but I guess it hit me in a different way because passover just happened.
My husband is a messianic Jew but his family is orthodox, so I see a lot of this adding and taking away first hand. It’s frustrating at times but it sometimes opens the floor up for discussion and leads to some truth being shared.
Next verse that struck me harder was
20 But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.
What a powerful image of God taking the Israelites (us) out of Egypt (the world/sin).
We fail so often to realize how big and great our God is and how he works in our lives just like the Israelites forgot and complained so often. It’s easy to read the OT and see how Israel fails and it makes me cringe and yet they are me every time.
How good is our God that he removed us from an iron-smelting furnace of death and redeemed us and made us to be apart of his kingdom!
Two things stood out. One is the story about the breaking of the bread. This is a testimony to me about tithing. We tithe even when we think we don’t have enough, and we always do. We give him what we have, and in his kingdom, he multiplies it, and we still walk away with more than enough.
The other is mercy. What a merciful God we serve….
Such truth in today’s reading! As I sit here feeding my 5 month old girl, I bookmarked SO many verses to underline in my bible later–things that I can’t wait to share with her and want her to have imprinted on her heart! Happy Friday and blessings ladies!
Yes! I kept hearing that theme of ‘don’t forget’ and ‘tell your children’ of all God has done and continues to do. Being a new mom puts all of into perspective and makes me so much more aware of my responsibility to pass this knowledge on. To make it part of our daily life and conversations, like it says in 6:7-9!
Great reflections.
10 When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
What a great reminder that so much I have is not by my own strength but a blessing from the Lord. He multiplied their bread and fish. He is so good from generation to generation!
38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.
These words are powerful. As so many of us have to step out into the world it can be easy to forget that Gods name needs to be fought for. There are so many idols, so many things that compete for our attention. Yet God asks us to boldly live and speak on his behalf…we get to represent a loving, jealous, merciful and holy God!
Deuteronomy 4:39
know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
I have struggled with doubt a lot in the last few years. I don’t understand why, as I have seen God work in mighty ways in my life, but I have still been plagued with questions like “what if it’s all just not real?” So this verse is my prayer, that I would KNOW that the Lord is God.
In Duet 4:29 But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
So good…Jeremiah 29:13 has the same verse..I love that constant theme in the Word!
I noted that connection as well :) This proves to me the validity and consistency of the Word.
7 What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him?
Love this verse. God is near when we reach out to Him. Even when we feel He doesn’t hear. He is El Roi, the God who sees and hears us.
I underlined the same verse..such a powerful reminder!!
me too, leah
29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear?
Both God and Jesus saw that the people They cared the most about did not have their hearts committed to knowing Them. How frustrating that must have been, to give so much for so long and still not have the recipients of your love, blessings and teachings fully involved with you.
How sad that it is still true today.