Prone to Wander
Numbers 2:34
"So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family."
My thoughts on obedience and faithfulness to God often bring me back to the lyrics of an old hymn that captures exactly the deep longing to commit ourselves to God completely vis-a-vis our fallenness:
"O to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above."
Let us strive to remain in God's love in Christ (John 15:9), progressively overcome the struggles that remain, take captive every thought and have it conformed to Christ (II Cor 10:5); and when we fail at times, seek God's face, and trust that His power is within us to rise beyond our fallen fleshly nature just as much as in persecution, struggles (Rom 8:37) that we may gain a "Spirit-ward" consciousness in daily living.
"So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family."
My thoughts on obedience and faithfulness to God often bring me back to the lyrics of an old hymn that captures exactly the deep longing to commit ourselves to God completely vis-a-vis our fallenness:
"O to grace how great a debtor
daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above."
Let us strive to remain in God's love in Christ (John 15:9), progressively overcome the struggles that remain, take captive every thought and have it conformed to Christ (II Cor 10:5); and when we fail at times, seek God's face, and trust that His power is within us to rise beyond our fallen fleshly nature just as much as in persecution, struggles (Rom 8:37) that we may gain a "Spirit-ward" consciousness in daily living.
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