"Prospecting Too"

"The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh." (Psalms 29:8) Then again, free will is free will; and although He desires us to be precious stones, and even helps us in the process, it is still something that we must also have a choice in: God does not force us into loving Him, although, He will allow us to come to a place where we absolutely need to cry out to Him, and He may even participate in process of us getting to that point; but He never will force us to love Him! Precious stones do not make themselves, they must be mined and refined; but a flawless gem is one that allows for all that is not part of the quality of flawlessness to be chipped away; otherwise, the refining of that gem is hindered, and the cuts are not perfectly produced. In other words, we must want God to change us!!! He will find us, pull us up out of the pit of the earth, and reveal Himself to us, by showing us how much we need Him and how much He loves us; but, it is still up to us to allow Him to freely refine our lives. Yes LORD, take that out of my life also! Make me love others more and more! Help me to forgive others, as you have forgiven me! May I be like you Jesus!!! What it is that I am trying to say, is that we are participants in the prospecting process! By allowing God to conform us into His image, we become more and more like He is, and we love Him more and more in the process! The more we love God, the less flawed we are, and the more we shine and sparkle! "Kadesh" is something interesting to speak of, because it represents several different things all at once. It represents 'Holy' for one, as in the potential to be holy; but more than that, it represents a place to the extreme south of Judah. As I said before, not everything needs to make sense; however, God will never leave us in the dark! But what He will do, is to show us just enough of Himself, that we will have a desire to know more of Him, and to hear His voice more... "All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware  unto your fathers. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest  keep His commandments, or no. And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)