Turn
Deuteronomy 30:10
if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
What comes before this verse is: The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers...
I love how each of these heart verses from Deuteronomy has a slightly different aspect. This verse adds to keeping the commands turning to Yahweh with all the heart.
Turning is a physical image, ceasing to gaze on one view as I rotate my position to gaze the other way. It also brings to mind repentance, "turning away". I turn from a lesser god to the one true God, not just superficially, but all the way to my core. My secret thoughts no longer linger on false gods, they are devoted to the real God.
Then God delights in me. I would like that. Actually, that is the very thing I have been longing for, to feel delight coming my way.
God, please help me to turn with all my heart.
if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
What comes before this verse is: The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers...
I love how each of these heart verses from Deuteronomy has a slightly different aspect. This verse adds to keeping the commands turning to Yahweh with all the heart.
Turning is a physical image, ceasing to gaze on one view as I rotate my position to gaze the other way. It also brings to mind repentance, "turning away". I turn from a lesser god to the one true God, not just superficially, but all the way to my core. My secret thoughts no longer linger on false gods, they are devoted to the real God.
Then God delights in me. I would like that. Actually, that is the very thing I have been longing for, to feel delight coming my way.
God, please help me to turn with all my heart.


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