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Deuteronomy chapter 29, verse 4 to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand

or eyes to see or ears to hear isn't that an interesting verse?

Moses is in the middle of telling God's people about all that they have seen and all that they've heard and all that they've experienced. But then he says in verse 4, to this day,

the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, our eyes, to see, or ears to hear.

Now, we could talk a long time about exactly all of this means.

What I want to just lead us to pray according to today is the reality that we only have a

heart to understand, our eyes to see, or ears to hear if God gives us that.

We need God's grace to understand who he is and who we are and how to live.

We need God's grace to see rightly.

We need God's grace to hear.

In other words, we're dependent on God for everything that's good, including even understanding

what is good, which drives us to pray, doesn't it? Like, this is the heart of prayer. We have nothing good

apart from God. And so we pray in desperation to God for His help. Even when we open up God's word,

I just want to encourage you before you read God's word to pray, God open my eyes. This is the

prayer of Psalm 119 that I may see wonderful things in your law. God, I need your help to understand your word. We can't

understand God's word. We can't see who God is and hear how to experience full, eternal life

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