Thursday, January 15, 2009

Today's Reading

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Oh, that today you would hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion
in the day of testing in the desert,
where your ancestors tested and tried me
and saw my works for forty years.
Because of this I was provoked with that generation
and I said, ‘They have always been of erring heart,
and they do not know my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter into my rest.’

I realized in reading this that it is not so much that our hearts can become harden under testing, as much as that the trial reveals a heart already hardened . . . luckily, Christ can breakthrough even the hardest of hearts, as I am, praise God, living proof.
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