“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.” – Hebrews 3:12
After Pharaoh’s heart was hardened against God, he was dealt a severe judgment that included the taking of the life of his firstborn son and the destruction of his entire Kingdom by God. Seeing the wrath of God poured out because of the hardness of heart, you would think that God’s people, who were then set free to begin their journey home to the Promised Land, would diligently and personally guard against a hardness of heart.
Sadly, the author of Hebrews reminds us of the tragic tale in Exodus where God’s people chose to “harden” their “hearts” in the wilderness where God says, “they put me to the test,” “provoked” His anger, choosing to “go astray in their heart,” because they had an ”evil, unbelieving heart,” causing them to “fall away from the living God,” becoming “hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,” leading to living “disobedient” and in “unbelief.”
Despite God doing His miraculous “works for forty years,” which included a cloud to lead them by day, a fire to lead them by night, and provision of food to sustain them, the people did not repent of their hardness of heart. As punishment, God let an entire generation die in the wilderness, never making it home to the Promised Land, which today is the nation of Israel.
If you had to pick one word to describe your heart today, what word would you choose and why? (e.g., joyful, fearful, broken, healed, thankful, hard, confused, hopeful, etc.)
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