Today is monday again I reflect on lastweek memory verse...hosted at The power of Your Love.
Lately i like to see the different translations and now a bloggyfriend Laurie-Ann posted in one of her interesting post to dive deeper in the word with http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.cfm
I had a lot of to think about....Here some of my findings...
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (The Message)
9-10"The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful,
a puzzle that no one can figure out.
But I, God, search the heart
and examine the mind.
I get to the heart of the human.
I get to the root of things.
I treat them as they really are,
not as they pretend to be."
King James Version
9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
English Standard Version
9The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
10 "I the LORD search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds."
New International Version
9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
10I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.
HEART
1) inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding
a) inner part, midst
1) midst (of things)
2) heart (of man)
3) soul, heart (of man)
4) mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory
5) inclination, resolution, determination (of will)
6) conscience
7) heart (of moral character)
8) as seat of appetites
9) as seat of emotions and passions
10) as seat of courage
The numbers 8-9 and 10 brought to mind my struggle to not being so seriouse with my food intake.....This part i need to bring into prayer MORE!!
DECEITFUL
1) deceitful, sly, insidious
a) deceitful, sly, insidious, slippery
b) foot-tracked
2) steep, hilly
DESPERATELY SICK
1) to be weak, sick, frail
a) (Qal)
1) to be incurable
2) to be sick
3) desperate, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, very sick (pass participle) (metaph.)
b) (Niphal) to be sick
CAN UNDERSTAND/KNOW
1) to know
a) (Qal)
1) to know
a) to know, learn to know
b) to perceive
c) to perceive and see, find out and discern
d) to discriminate, distinguish
e) to know by experience
f) to recognise, admit, acknowledge, confess
g) to consider
2) to know, be acquainted with
3) to know (a person carnally)
4) to know how, be skilful in
5) to have knowledge, be wise
1c and 3 The Lord perceive and see, find out and discern, he knows me personally carnally. Why is it that this slips the mind in the HEAT OF LIFE!!
I TEST
1) to examine, try, prove
to examine, scrutinise
2) to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God)
to be tried, proved
to make a trial
I found this verse who came a long these explanations and that strucked me...The Lord who refines us like SILVER and TEST like GOLD !!
Zec 13:9 This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is our God.' "
THE MIND
1) kidneys
a) of physical organ (lit.)
b) of seat of emotion and affection (fig.)
c) of sacrificial animals
2) (TWOT) reins
He SEARCHE my heart and EXAMINE my mind
My conscience
heart (of moral character)
seat of appetites
seat of emotions and passions
seat of courage
IS SEARCHED and
My seat of emotion and affection
IS EXAMINED
I'm so thankful that i know He is there to call unto Him to give it ALL to Him .
I want to be refined to become more of HIM.
So i can shine like GOLD.......SHINING HISlight and nothing else....AMEN
Join this week in memorizing our new verse...and let us read what you learn from it.
Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You.....Psalm 119:11 (NASB)
Blessings!!
Romans 12!