About The Heart

Each day I take one or more verses, beginning at the beginning of the Bible, including the word heart. To that I add a little informal commentary.

Friday, March 25, 2005

Joshua Heart

Joshua 22:5
But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to obey his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul."

With this we go to Joshua, and then quickly into Judges, Samuel, etc. This verse very much continues Deuteronomy, even calling on the name of Moses "the servant of the LORD", echoing Moses' theme that obedience was to be a heart matter, not merely motions. Joshua was Moses' protege, one of the great men of the Bible in his own right. Though he never attained servant of God or friend of God status as Moses did, he showed his heart when he argued for going into the promised land when they first arrived, and he had the heart to be Moses' successor as leader of the nation. He had a special name: it means Yahweh saves. They might have said it Yeshua. It is Jesus' Hebrew name.
He said this after the first wave of conquest was done, when he allowed the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh to go to their territory, which was across the river from the rest of them. I like all these commands: to love, to walk, to obey, to hold fast to him and to serve with all your heart.
I was thinking about that at my break, asking God, how can I please you, what can I do to please you? I wish that somehow I could do it and have done, but it's not like that, it is done day by day and even hour by hour. Do it and redo it. From the heart.

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