All the Secret Thoughts
Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
I never realized Deuteronomy has so much to say about the heart. This is the fourth reference, and looking ahead, I see many more. Consider the first three books of the Bible. Genesis has six references in a variety of situations. Exodus has 24 references, but over half of them have to do with Pharoah's hard heart. Leviticus has only one.
Besides the number of mentions, Deuteronomy seems mostly to use heart to mean:
one's secret thoughts, innermost soul, conscience; one's personality as a vital or active force; as to love with one's whole heart; the vital, inner or chief part of anything; the center; core.
Again, spiritual reality is found not only in actions, in ritual and religion, but deep inside, in the secret thoughts.
Are my secret thoughts all of God? I have so far to go to reach that, but I can try.
But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
I never realized Deuteronomy has so much to say about the heart. This is the fourth reference, and looking ahead, I see many more. Consider the first three books of the Bible. Genesis has six references in a variety of situations. Exodus has 24 references, but over half of them have to do with Pharoah's hard heart. Leviticus has only one.
Besides the number of mentions, Deuteronomy seems mostly to use heart to mean:
one's secret thoughts, innermost soul, conscience; one's personality as a vital or active force; as to love with one's whole heart; the vital, inner or chief part of anything; the center; core.
Again, spiritual reality is found not only in actions, in ritual and religion, but deep inside, in the secret thoughts.
Are my secret thoughts all of God? I have so far to go to reach that, but I can try.
posted by ruthees @ 1:06 PM
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