WHOLEhearted.
MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️
I love so many of the titles to chapters in the book of Deuteronomy. I want to dig into each one. These three especially….
A Call to Wholehearted Commitment (chapter 6)
A Call to Remember and Obey (chapter 8)
A Call to Love and Obedience (chapter 10)
Notice that there’s a call to WHOLE-heartedness before there’s a call to any of the others. Here’s the scripture from that chapter (6):
“You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands I’m giving you today.”
It’s hard to be wholehearted about anything if your heart isn’t whole. And when our hearts aren’t whole we begin to fill the “hole” with other things that honestly, take us further and further away from being able to love and commit to Him … or even desire to pursue Him.
It becomes nearly impossible.
Too many other things have taken root. We have to begin to dismantle them one by one and then we must begin to remove all of the “crutches” put in place to try and numb the fact that we aren’t whole hearted.
You’ve seen it. You know what I’m talking about.
They can start out small, but then, they grow. They can be things. They can be feelings. They can be people. Anything that takes the place of being on the journey to whole-heartedness. Or maybe, better put, anything that distracts us from pursuing the journey to a whole heart.
Remember that old game Candy land?!? How you could get stuck in Molasses Swamp or you’d have to sit and wait a turn at gooey gumball lane? Yeah…that’s the visual I’m seeing. Those gumballs sure looked good. Those molasses sure tasted sweet…all of them caused DELAY.
I know that I, for one, am going to take stock and see if I have anything distracting me from the pursuit of whole-heartedness. It’s a journey for sure…but one worth taking. Take back those pieces of your heart that were stolen, given away, or neglected for too long.
xox.eb