What's In The Heart. (Isaiah 39:1,8; 2Chronicles 32:31)

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Like from Se7en, "What's in the box?!" What's in the heart? Jeremiah speaks says it is a place of deceit, who can understand it, after Noah gets off the boat and sacrifices without being asked, God says that evil is the human way and wiping us out every time we get to that point wouldn't work to keep to HIS main want of doing it with us. So, something has to change. Fundamentally. Otherwise we are repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. JESUS' sacrifice is once and for all, for all before the cross and all after it, so any heart that looks to HIM, looks to HIS way of doing it will live. Very much reminiscent of Moses and the bronze snake on the stick, no? GOD wanted to see what was in Hezekiah's heart, as a reader, we get to see what is in ours. Do we go to Hezekiah and say, "Moron!" Or do we have a humbled pride moment and thank GOD for all the times we have done the same and HE has been gentle with us. When the heart was focused on the game, the chore, the next thing to do, the next pleasure sought rather than seeking the Healer. Focusing on the temporary things rather than the eternal ones. The longer we do that, get obsessed with and focused on our own creation, the harder it is to remember that we are created. Spend enough time looking at "your own kingdom" and eventually it becomes "look what I have wrought."