Ignoring His Voice….

The heart of the “God issue” isn’t that He doesn’t exist (as many claim), it’s the hardening of one’s own heart when they ignore His voice, that’s the core issue. There are so many people who deny God because when His voice speaks to them, it triggers something in their past that’s too painful to confront. Some sin, some experience, or issue that doesn’t want to be dealt with. Denying His existence buys them more time to avoid the pain. Over time, it hardens one’s heart to His voice. Denial doesn’t change reality, it just wastes our most precious resource, time. And over time, our receptiveness to truth gardens, leaving us vulnerable to any and all kinds of deception and temptation. God wouldn’t call men if He didn’t have a purpose for them. Stop denying, running away, and respond with the only proper reaction, “here I am Lord, restore and use me to bring You glory”. Enter into God’s rest today, and use the rest of your time here on earth making eternal deposits.

7 That is why the Holy Spirit says, “Today when you hear His voice,8 don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled, when they tested Me in the wilderness.9 There your ancestors tested and tried My patience, even though they saw My miracles for forty years.10 So I was angry with them, and I said, ‘Their hearts always turn away from Me. They refuse to do what I tell them.’11 So in My anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter My place of rest.’ ”. 12 Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. 13 You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. 14 For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. 15 Remember what it says: “Today when you hear His voice,don’t harden your heartsas Israel did when they rebelled.” 16 And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard His voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? 18 And to whom was God speaking when He took an oath that they would never enter His rest? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed Him? 19 So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter His rest. Hebrews 3:6c-19