Written on our Hearts

 Written on our Hearts

 

“The LORD your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. Follow them carefully with all your heart and all your soul. Today you have affirmed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey him.” Deuteronomy 26:16-17

God was teaching the Israelites how to live in relationship with Him. He still desires that close relationship with us today. That is me staying in step with His Spirit. 

There is such a big difference in knowing the law written on our hearts. The word “law” doesn’t have a great understanding in a worldly view. It is something we follow in order to stay out of trouble and something we break that can result in consequences. But the word law here were the instructions given to them to live in peace and His goodness and blessing we were meant to live in. Only when I follow Jesus will I know that Shepherd and Overseer of my soul. Can you believe He desires to know us more than anything?

He has always desired I would know His heart. Even all those years of choosing things living in shame and guilt He was showing me something I could never had imagined. My dependency on Him alone. Something I thought I was running from became the One who I run to. Those days when I can feel Him leading are fueled by those quiet days and those really hard days. The ones that don't let up. That is Him building that endurance to keep going.

It gets so quiet. I am not always going to feel like following what can’t be felt within my flesh. I have noticed something with this disease of MS and it can ebb and flow. It happens within all of us but I can write down these times and look back and see how this fatigue of my mind is a normal for me. And when it is present it is hard to focus and clarity can be more challenging. This fuzzy feeling I have become accustomed to isn’t fun but has become the reminder to lean in. It can be a distraction for me when I experience this but at the same time the distraction is the reminder of what I am feeling is a reason to praise. Something can begin to lift off us when we praise even when the feeling feels heavy like the fog. Moving once again from that independence to dependence on my Shepherd leading the way. The way He has always meant to lead us every step on the way.

What could be your distraction to allowing Him to have that full leading? Tell Him. Ask Him to remove it.

The Israelites were learning to depend on God as He led them through the wilderness into the promise land. On the way they like us experienced trials, struggles, problems, and God continued to remind them, “I will walk with you” like He does with us. We are in the promise that we can know that leaning in and following Jesus will lead us to paths of righteousness. He is building endurance in us to keep persevering the race that has been set before us keeping our eyes on Jesus the Author and Perfecter of our faith. And the quiet endurance will be seen in our lives as we learn to keep Him above everything else so that others can know Jesus.

Father,

When the enemy of our mind wants to forget remind us to worship you with a heart of praise. We walk alongside one another as One. We trust in you with all our hearts. Don’t let us lean on our own understanding. Help us to walk with the mind of Christ in this world. Show us those around us that you are after and let us remember all you have done for us. It is all for your glory King Jesus..

Amen