April 4, 2024
Read Numbers 24, Psalm 95-97
We have a responsibility to respond to the Lord when He works in and around our lives. Psalm 95 challenges us; “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did” vv. 7-9. This passage is echoed by the author of Hebrews as a warning for us not to turn away from the Lord. Our free will is one of the greatest gifts that God has bestowed on us. The ability to choose to love and freely give or reject that which God has placed before us is powerful. We should be cautious to not continue to away from the Lord like the Israelites did in the wilderness and like so many others have done. It is a scary thing to consider that our hearts would harden and cause us to miss out on the blessings of God because we continually rejected the Lord or continually participated in some form of sin that turned us deaf to the voice of the Lord. Have you become hardened of heart in some way or area? Do we allow the world to influence us in ways that are dangerous to our eternal destiny?
What else do you see in these chapters? What words, verses, or themes stand out to you?
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