Where Am I in the Equation?

I need to let you in on a little secret about myself. It seems like when I have something that I am very comfortable with, I absolutely refuse to let it go. For example, I have a pair of Israeli sandals that once I got them broken in, or as my wife lovingly tells me, I broke them out, I will not let them go because they are extremely comfortable. Well, the same is true with one of my Bibles. I have had it for well over 20 years and some of the pages in it literally look like something you would see in a Bible museum in Jerusalem with fragmented pages. I rarely call it my Bible but my notebook because I have written so much in it that I tend to use it as a point of reference.

I noticed in Deuteronomy 8 a note I had written, Why the Lord had the Israelites in the wilderness. 

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
(Deuteronomy 8:2-5)

The key to these verses is in the last verse, Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

Is it just possible that God is using Corona to draw us closer to Him?  Is it possible that we have become so comfortable with the world that we have forgotten Who created us and everything else around us?  I think so.  In vs. 17 He states the haughtiness of man’s heart, My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth. See God is not in the equation because they have become comfortable with life going really well for them, just like the frog in the beaker. 

I had this exact conversation with God the other day in one of my journaling times concerning the virus. He asked me:  Think of it like this when a child is punished, what goes through their mind?  I responded, they have been wronged, they are angry, or they do not want to be sent to their room because there is nothing to do.  He said, that is it, right there, nothing to do. What do you think would happen if I were not in the equation of something to do?  What do you think would happen if all of a sudden life became so hard or difficult that you cannot talk to anyone including people in your home? It would be very hard because people are made to naturally want fellowship, and that is the reason I created man so that they would have fellowship with Me. But there is a problem with that, man chose not to, but instead with other people.  Where am I in the equation now?

Man has a will of their own and can do whatever he wants, but again I created man to come after Me, to follow Me, and seek Me not go after, follow, or seek after the world but Me and Me alone.

Life in Me is not like life on earth, this is the reason why people visit heaven never want to leave.  In the eyes of a New Ager, it would be the ideal utopia, except theirs only exist in their minds and not their hearts.  They are chasing after a lie that leads only to hell. Where am I in that equation?

God is calling to you during this time and giving the exact same chance that He gave to the Israelites in the wilderness. The first two statements in the Ten Commandments are about following Him. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. (Deuteronomy 6:7, 8)

Where is your heart and your focus during this time? Is it on God or on what you desire to do when this is all over so you can get back to, life as normal? Where is God in your equation?

Until next time...

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