Don’t Harden Your Heart
“Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:7-19)
Today’s Morsel: The writer of Hebrews enlightens us as to why the children of Isarel could not enter the promised land. He said it was because of their unbelief. I find it interesting that God calls the Promised Land, the land of rest. But they couldn’t enter their rest because of unbelief. And the writer of Hebrews cautions us to be aware that if we allow that spirit of unbelief to get into our hearts, then we too can miss out on the rest. Paul cautions the church at Rome: “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.” (Romans 3:3-4) He said that we should not allow other’s unbelief to prevent us from receiving the promise. Are you restless? Do you have trouble finding your rest? Then let me ask you a question: How’s your belief in God and His word? Isaiah informs us: “For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.” (Isaiah 28:11-12) The Holy Ghost is the rest. As Jesus said, man was not made for the sabbath, but sabbath for man. Man was not made for the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Ghost for man. The Holy Ghost will give you sweet rest.
Sing: I’ve got the Holy Ghost down in my soul, just like the Bible said. I’ve got the Holy Ghost down in my soul, just like the Bible said. Well, I’ve been to the water and I’ve been baptized in Jesus’ name, my soul got happy, and I’m so satisfied. I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now; just like the Bible, just like the Bible said, just like the Bible said.
Thought For Today: “Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.” (Psalms 95:10-11)
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