The BIBLE states, “TODAY, if ye will hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke…” (Hebrews 3:15) Exactly what does this mean? Simply, stop and desist in your sins. In other words, “Submit Your Resignation!” to the devil!
BRING IT DOWN ON HOME:
Like it or not, some of us are on the wrong side of the street! Mama use to say, “Youse better stop acting like a fool – the LAWD sees all, knows, all and hears all!” Once Mama spelled out this jingle to us, we’d stop dead in our tracks because the next blow was a 5 long, skinny switches from a peach tree. We became hopping Indians and Cowboys with several blows to our legs. MAMA WAS JESUS! Quickly (whelps and all), we resigned from sinning!
As adults, we are no longer children and Mama is long gone! We know right from wrong (YOU TOO) no matter how stupid we act. More so, we know GOD’S voice. HE whispers in our inner ear, “Don’t do this….don’t go over there…say I’m sorry…pay your bills…pay back the money you borrowed…don’t lust…don’t steal…don’t cheat…don’t lie…get up on time…go to work on time…read your Bible…study My Word…don’t drive fast….help your family…help others…love your enemies…do good unto those who persecute you…”
WHY are we disobedient? Some of us have been 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years in the wilderness (a barren land). Even though we incur the same struggles over-and-over, we continue down the same path; and very rarely, do we bail out. We continue to produce bad fruit. Another Scripture reads, “Harden not your HEART, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. …” (Psalm 95:8)
In paraphrasing, the ALMIGHTY GOD told the Children of Israel, “I put up with your foolishness for forty years and that’s why yawl wondered in the wilderness as I allowed hunger to strike you…snakes to bit you…and for your throats to dry out like roasted peanuts… Because yawl made ME so mad I swore (in ME Wrath) that you should not enter into ME rest…” (Psalm 95:10-11) Yes, HE is a Global God and Universal Lord! Also, HE speaks the vernacular of all languages as HE is the Creator! Because of sin, many people (rich and poor) are long gone from the Land of the Living but for some of us – there is still hope!
Have a Blessed Day!
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