HARDNESS OF HEART.


One of my favourite morning routines is T30. What a way to kickstart one's day!

Now, there's this particular T30 that explained something I had previously struggled to understand in the Bible. It was the concept of hardness of heart and the ways it can manifest.

"Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness." ~ Hebrews 3:8

This gives the idea of hardness of heart a new perspective. It is not merely about forming resistance against God or outrightly refusing to obey Him. If you know the story being referenced here, how the children of Israel were brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand, how they saw the Red Sea part, and yet, when they experienced a little difficulty in the wilderness, they began asking, "Where is God?" then you'll understand.

Hardness of heart is when the evidence of God's past faithfulness loses its influence over our present trust in Him. When a new trial makes us respond as though God has never helped us before. When the uncertainty of today makes us forget the faithfulness of yesterday.

So, if I ask you whether your heart is hard, I'm pretty sure you'll say no. But when we look closer, we might find that we have all had moments when it was.

We've all had those seasons when it felt like the end, when we were going through something so shitty that we had no way out, and then God showed up for us in no small ways. At that point, we're grateful. We remember how He came through, how He made a way where there seemed to be none, and how He carried us through what we thought would break us.

But then, we encounter another difficult season. Another uncertainty, another situation we cannot seem to figure out, and for a moment, we forget. We panic and begin to doubt, responding as though this is the point where God will finally leave us stranded.

That, my dearest reader, is one way hardness of heart manifests.

The problem isn't always that we don't believe God can come through. Sometimes, it's that we struggle to remember that He has come through before. We allow the weight of what we are facing now to overshadow the evidence of His faithfulness in our past.

And no, remembering God's past faithfulness doesn't mean we won't feel afraid, have questions, or struggle to trust Him in difficult moments. It means that our struggles should not make us dismiss everything we have already seen Him do. The wilderness may be unfamiliar, but it isn't the first time we've needed God to make a way.

Let the memory of His faithfulness speak to the uncertainty of your present. And, one of the ways we keep our hearts tender towards God is by refusing to let the trials of today erase the testimonies of yesterday.

So, you, when the wilderness gets difficult, will you remember the God who brought you out of Egypt?



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