#DailyDevotion Today Don’t Harden Your Hearts

Hebrews 3:15-19

¹⁵When it says: “Today, if you hear Him speak, don’t harden your hearts as it happened when the people provoked Me” — ¹⁶who were those that heard Him and yet provoked Him? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷With whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies dropped dead in the desert? ¹⁸To whom did He swear they would not come to His place of rest if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹So we see that they couldn’t come there because they didn’t believe.

Well “Today” you are reading this little bit of Scripture in which the LORD is speaking, so don’t harden your hearts as the Israelites did in the wilderness. Hebrews continues with the reminder of how the Israelites were with the LORD and Moses. They were the ones Moses led out of Egypt. They were the ones who did not believe the LORD when he said go in and take the land when they came to the Levant, the Promised Land but instead rebelled. That generation all died in the wilderness for the LORD swore they would never make it in since they didn’t believe his promise.

Now through Jesus Christ, his apostles and all those who carried his witness the Church calls for you to repent of your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of those sins so you may enter the kingdom of God. The Israelites did not enter the Promise Land but wandered the wilderness for forty years until that unbelieving generation all passed away. Now we have a greater witness than Moses; we have God’s Son, Jesus Christ. He has promised to give us the kingdom of God. He has promised us a new heavens and a new earth where righteousness reigns. Today as you hear this promise will you harden your hearts like the Israelites?

What sins are you holding back from God because you want to continue in them? What areas of your life are you unwilling to trust God with because you don’t think he cares about it? In what ways are you living because you don’t believe it is truly all by his grace you are forgiven and eternal life is yours? How do you tell the LORD you don’t need his help; you can do it all by yourself?

Jesus said we must become like little children to inherit the kingdom of God. That means we must be helpless, totally dependent upon the LORD for our salvation. Will you be totally helpless before the LORD Jesus Christ and receive this gift with thanksgiving? Will you allow yourself to be completely dependent upon the work of Jesus Christ trusting his work, his righteousness, his holiness is what makes you acceptable to God your heavenly Father? Today, don’t harden your hearts but receive the Holy Spirit who will conform your hearts and your will to the heart and will of Jesus. Put your trust solely in him and live.

Heavenly Father, crush our unbelieving hearts and give us a heart of flesh so we may humble ourselves before you, confess our sins, repent of them, and trust only in the work of your Son Jesus Christ for our standing before you so we may enter your eternal kingdom. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Hebrews 3:15-19

¹⁵When it says: “Today, if you hear Him speak, don’t harden your hearts as it happened when the people provoked Me” — ¹⁶who were those that heard Him and yet provoked Him? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? ¹⁷With whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies dropped dead in the desert? ¹⁸To whom did He swear they would not come to His place of rest if not to those who disobeyed? ¹⁹So we see that they couldn’t come there because they didn’t believe.

Well “Today” you are reading this little bit of Scripture in which the LORD is speaking, so don’t harden your hearts as the Israelites did in the wilderness. Hebrews continues with the reminder of how the Israelites were with the LORD and Moses. They were the ones Moses led out of Egypt. They were the ones who did not believe the LORD when he said go in and take the land when they came to the Levant, the Promised Land but instead rebelled. That generation all died in the wilderness for the LORD swore they would never make it in since they didn’t believe his promise.

Now through Jesus Christ, his apostles and all those who carried his witness the Church calls for you to repent of your sins, trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of those sins so you may enter the kingdom of God. The Israelites did not enter the Promise Land but wandered the wilderness for forty years until that unbelieving generation all passed away. Now we have a greater witness than Moses; we have God’s Son, Jesus Christ. He has promised to give us the kingdom of God. He has promised us a new heavens and a new earth where righteousness reigns. Today as you hear this promise will you harden your hearts like the Israelites?

What sins are you holding back from God because you want to continue in them? What areas of your life are you unwilling to trust God with because you don’t think he cares about it? In what ways are you living because you don’t believe it is truly all by his grace you are forgiven and eternal life is yours? How do you tell the LORD you don’t need his help; you can do it all by yourself?

Jesus said we must become like little children to inherit the kingdom of God. That means we must be helpless, totally dependent upon the LORD for our salvation. Will you be totally helpless before the LORD Jesus Christ and receive this gift with thanksgiving? Will you allow yourself to be completely dependent upon the work of Jesus Christ trusting his work, his righteousness, his holiness is what makes you acceptable to God your heavenly Father? Today, don’t harden your hearts but receive the Holy Spirit who will conform your hearts and your will to the heart and will of Jesus. Put your trust solely in him and live.

Heavenly Father, crush our unbelieving hearts and give us a heart of flesh so we may humble ourselves before you, confess our sins, repent of them, and trust only in the work of your Son Jesus Christ for our standing before you so we may enter your eternal kingdom. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.