Deuteronomy 11: 16 “But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship other gods. 17 If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.

18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land theLord swore to give your ancestors.

22 “Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the Lord your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him. 23 Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land. 24 Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. 25 No one will be able to stand against you, for the Lord your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.

26 “Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse! 27 You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today. 28 But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of theLord your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.

I have read this scripture 1,000 times.. I have LIVED this scripture over and over again... I am in such a great place when I am in tune with God and His will... yet somehow.. I fall back.. even if not in actions.. I still fall backwards in spending time with Him.. in reading the bible.. in prayer... I go through the motions with my actions but not with my heart.. God wants to have our hearts more than our actions I believe... 

idk how it is when I see the goodness of God over and over... yet I allow my heart too cool where He is concerned.. it is never intentional... but slowly it happens... 

I think this often happens to us with significant others... or whatever our closest relationships are.. we begin to see people (or God in this case) as part of the scenery... and we take them (Him) for granted... I desire to do better in this area.. yet thankfully.. God stands right here.. waiting on me to notice it and come back wholeheartedly... He is the greatest God ever... the greatest anything ever.... 

thank you Lord for loving me so... help me to love you better and better every day! *hugs*