So I mentioned when I started this Weigh Down blog, that I had an epiphany that I was in a dessert of testing. Well listen to this,It's from Deuteronomy 8:2,3 "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the dessert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord." The promise land is a place out of the hot dessert, for me that place is I no longer am tempted to eat unless my stomach is hungry. That place for others may be no longer addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, a happy marriage, Kids who have grown up and are doing well, for everyone there is a Promise Land, a place you yearn to be in your life.
Have I been humbled....yes.
Have I been tested.....yes.
Have I kept his commands...sometimes
Am I still in the dessert....yes
I think to really look at our lives and answer these questions honestly we have to ask the question, "Am I living in the promise land, flowing with milk and honey?"
If there are places in our lives that are not prospering and not filled with good things like milk and honey, then we are probably not all there yet.
I have decided I am going to start listening for his voice and not wander around for another 12 years or 40 years, what ever you want to call it.
Micah, thank you for taking the time to write these blogs. They are very inspirational. (this is mom posting under Hannah's name because I do not know how to get my own.
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