Proverbs 3:1 KJV
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Here is quite the thought. The Word of God says to keep the commandments, not in the flesh, the body; but in thine heart. If the heart keeps God's commandments, the body won't be far behind.
Too much of our time is focused on action, activity, doing. We have it backwards. We think if we can get the right activities in our lives then the heart will follow. Thousands of years of human religion have proven that to be wrong. It doesn't work. It produces pride, arrogance and human elevation. Or else it produces frustration, failure and self condemnation. Neither is of the Lord.
It's easier to keep the commandments in the flesh too. The heart is a ethereal thing. It's not speaking of the pump in the chest, but of the affections of the soul. I may be able to force my body to behave a certain way - but to make my affections feel a certain way; that is another story.
So this is the grander work. It is the strait and the narrow way, the road less travelled. It is the path that seldom trod because it is the path we are less sure of. But it is the path that leads to the greatest vistas and most beautiful views in the life of pursuit after God.
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