but let your heart keep my commandments,
2for length of days and years of life
and peace they will add to you. 3Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;
bind them around your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4So you will find favor and good success[a]
in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
6In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes;
fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
8It will be healing to your flesh[b]
and refreshment[c] to your bones.
9Honor the LORD with your wealth
and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
10then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will be bursting with wine.
11 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline
or be weary of his reproof,
12for the LORD reproves him whom he loves,
as a father the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:1-12
So I want to do something different with my blog and this piece of scripture is what I am aiming towards. Coming to know God, binding his commandments on our hearts, accepting his reproof on us and coming to love him and his ways more! it was really hard for me to name this blog my options were this or Amos 5:1-17 and i really like that passage as well its main theme is seek the lord and live but it also is packed about Gods glory, justness,and Holiness. And it shows it through how he speaks to the Israelites in this time were they chose to abandon Gods ways. Bassically Hosea paints a good picture about what it means to leave God. He says when we leave God its like leaving our husband for prostitution. We are made ot be with the Most High yet we prostitute ourselves.... thats crazy to me. And I am not writing this in the perspective "the world needs to hear truth!" that is true though,w e all need to hear truth... but I am writing these firt and foremost because these are my struggles things that happen in my life... and my hope is that through what God is teaching me and giving me revelation that it can help you, the reader in any way! cause in no way do I want to become like the people in this verse. (these are people approaching Ezekiel the prophet to hear the word of God, and in this context God is speaking to Ezekiel)
"And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain."
Ezekiel 33:31
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