{"id":3215,"date":"2018-08-22T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2018-08-22T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:25:16","slug":"proverbs-161-the-preparations-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is<\/i> from the LORD.<\/h4>\n
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This reminds of a verse: (Ezra 7:10) For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do <\/strong>it…<\/strong><\/i>\u00a0Preparations<\/em> are plans. It’s what the heart is planning to do. It’s planning the work and then working the plan. They say that heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Just reading over Proverbs 16 teaches us that\u00a0preparation<\/em> is much much more than just having a plan; though that is hard enough to accomplish in and of itself.<\/p>\n

Through the years, I’ve seen that\u00a0planning<\/em> is one of the hardest things to accomplish. If I remember right, it was on a green paper with a picture of a turtle in my economics class:\u00a0Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail.\u00a0<\/em>However,\u00a0planning<\/em> is not an easy task. It takes much effort, physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual, to devise a plan; to conjure up a scheme; to develop a schedule; to invent a method. It’s not easy to lay it all out. There’s unknowns that requires\u00a0Plan B and C and D and E sometimes. There are limitations that require creativity to overcome. There are frustration that weary you. There are thoughts that hinder you. I’m not talking about working the plan. I’m only<\/em> talking about planning the work.\u00a0Planning is\u00a0<\/em>work and\u00a0takes\u00a0much practice, wisdom, and even help to accomplish it. Sometimes we don’t need a method for our madness, but we desperately need a method for simply coming up with a method.<\/p>\n

Let me bring this back down to\u00a0The preparations of the heart in man…\u00a0<\/strong>So then, the preparations of the heart is<\/em> work and requires practice, wisdom, and help. Being gloriously saved is the greatest thing that could happen to a person; but it’s just the beginning of a glorious journey; a glorious\u00a0preparation<\/em> of the heart. (Jeremiah 29:11) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.\u00a0<\/strong>The proverb says\u00a0The preparations of the heart…\u00a0is<\/i> from the LORD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0plan<\/em> is no doubt to get to heaven, but\u00a0how<\/em> we must arrive there is yet to be seen. Being saved secures us a place in heaven, but the route in which we take, we’ve never known. Jesus is the door and we may have entered in, but now we trod the narrow way. Let me ask you this: What\u00a0preparations<\/em> have you made for this journey?\u00a0Proverbs 16 has some tremendous prepatory advise to give.<\/p>\n