Open Your Heart To God

Open Your Hearts To God “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing me in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.” Hebrews 3:8-9 These are the words that God gives us to warn us to not harden our hearts and obey his teachings. But I am afraid that our society as a whole is again hardening their hearts to the Word of God and his commandments. We are turning away from God and becoming a world where there is sexual immorality, perversion, greed, anger, and almost any other form of sin pervading our society. We are gradually taking God out of our lives, as he is becoming less and less of our daily lives. I can remember as I grew up that we prayed in school, and any government meeting was begun with prayer. Our families prayed before meals and we worshipped together at church on Sunday. Today, we are not allowed to pray in school, or in our government. There is becoming more and more families that do not pray together, and many do not even go to church to worship. God warns us to not test him in these acts of disobedience, as throughout history he has turned his back on his people when they began turning from him. In the scripture above he let his chosen people wander for forty years in the desert because they hardened their hearts toward him. Our society is forgetting God, and I believe he is again going to punish us for this disobedience. God’s chosen people have been the most powerful people in existence when they have obeyed and followed God’s commands, but when they disobeyed, God has allowed them to be defeated, conquered and humiliated by their enemies. I would encourage each of you to open your hearts to God and change your lives, before God takes his revenge on you. My Daily Devotional Volume III June 30 Robert William Brock, Jr.