Hebrews 3:7-11 will be our text for today's short thoughts. In these verses the writer was inspired to reference words previously written by the psalmist. The passage says, "Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, 'Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, and saw My works for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; And they did not know my ways'; As I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'"
Much could be said about the various topics mentioned in this portion of His written word. But I will limit my "short thoughts" to the heavenly admonition against hardening the heart. Oh that we might listen and respond to the loving voice of our Heavenly Father as He speaks to our hearts. Through His word, His called servants, prayer and the fellowship of believers, may we be surrendered to the Holy Spirit as He fulfills His role as our Helper.
He wants what is best for us, "that we may share His holiness", each of us who are His children, "partakers of the Divine nature". We must seek to guard our hearts and minds through intimacy with the Lord Jesus. Our enemy, the one who "prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" intends to use all that he feels will be effective in keeping us from an "undistracted devotion to the Lord". He will attempt to use all that is contrary to Christ likeness to cause a hardening of our hearts. May we acknowledge the importance of a soft heart and look to Jesus for guidance in making and keeping it so. Whatever may come our way, may we seek His grace and mercy to be soft to His loving touch.
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