From the Beginning it Was Not So

In general, it has been a strange week for friends and family. Stunning medical rescues, families at odds, couples walking different directions, a constant stream of lies like flies ....everywhere a nuisance. Stupid hurtfully selfish decisions everywhere. Just painfully pitiful personal reports (as if it wasn't bad enough in our nation that we had to beat at the very core of our love and strength) one right after another. GOD, WHERE ARE YOU IN THIS?

It keeps coming like a severed artery ----Unfaithfulness ....trust issues....fear of loss....fear of the unknown ....hope started and then thrashed without remorse.... pride puffed to proportions of near explosion ... lies ...lies ...lies.

I think I have it somewhat figured out!!!!Although this story is about questions about divorce ... I'm not necessarily choosing it for that part of the context BUT let the chips fall where they may .....But I chosen it for the last line in this verse, where Jesus risks all and unveils his heart.

Matthew 19:8
"He saith unto them," (Pharisees - from the Hebrew word meaning to make distinct, clarify, distinguish, seperate,to declare ....at one time a sect of the Jews that were dedicated to distinctly declaring the Word of God, declaing it as distinctly true ....but they forgot that there was a distinct HEART behind that Word --- alot like fundamental believers of today)
"Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives:" (our hearts, not seeing His heart, will become like their hearts, "your hearts" HARD
...... HARDNESS - (Greek)Sklerokardia - Skleros: harsh, hard, stiff, rough, violent, offensive, intolerable --and Kardia: heart, seat of the emotions, attitudes, center of motives and decisions. Here is a wierd idiom from this word - "Stiff-legged-heart".
"but from the beginning it was not so." This is our Lord pleading ....you are trying not to listen .... it would be so much easier to give up, give in or what ever to make the pain go away ....even if but for a moment. Stop your ears but now you hear the thump of your impatient heart.

DON'T GIVE IN to the out side pressure that wants you to DO IT YOUR WAY and GET IT OVER WITH.....

Someone is not looking at the heart of God... either by ignorance (and it is not bliss) or by stubborn perception.

If this is getting anywhere near your heart ....fall to your knees(in your mind if that is all you are capable of) ...and listen to HIS HEART in His Word ...quit your wandering, wondering way ...His is the only WAY,

His way is the only Truth, His way is the only LIFE, His way is the only way of peace.

What ever you need ... he can supply ...trust HIM.

He sees your tears.....His heart usually goes against the tide of so-called righteous opinion.

"thy Will(desire) not mine be done".

HLFA,

Jeff