A Cold Hearted Sista

Scripture
Psalm 95:8 (KJV)
⁸ Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:






Inspiration:
God's original chosen people were a fickle group. They wanted to be free from Egyptian rule and slavery, then they wished they were in bondage after experiencing what they considered to be the harshness of their desert commute. They were hungry, yet murmured and complained when they miraculously received bread from heaven. Whenever they were slightly uncomfortable, they complained. They questioned Aaron, Moses, and God Himself. Growing restless as Moses consulted the LORD, they consolidated their gold to create a god that they could see and touch. They knew what the LORD expected of them, yet they hardened their hearts, refusing the word of authority, refusing conviction, refusing rebuking, refusing reproofing and most abhorrently, refusing to change.


Before God gave us hearts of flesh, we had hearts of stone. I can personally attest to this truth. Prior to coming into Christ and having Christ come into me, I was a cold, cold sistah. Nowadays, my love for God and for His people strengthens, deepens, and widens every day. However, in those days, I had no filter, no remorse, no compassion, no regrets, no sympathy and little to no love for anyone or anything. To put it quite simply, there wasn't too much that I cared about. But if I remember this season of my life, then I must remember the season prior to it. I wasn't always this cold, hard, stony sistah. I became her. At some point, my heart was calloused over, a kind of defensive maneuver, protecting and keeping whatever was in, in, and whatever was out, out. At some point, my heart became this impregnable and wintry fortress.


 Although important, I won't detail the "whys" of this counterproductive transformation at this particular time. I will only share that with my heart condition, it was hard for me to feel. As if anesthetics were injected into my chest, I didn't care about hurting feelings or being judged. I didn't care about or respect authority. I did whatever I wanted to do. I had a cold, stony, hardened heart.

Such a heart is not pleasing to the LORD. If we allow our hearts to harden, then we are not receptive to the urgings and ways of God. If we allow our hearts to harden, then we lack the compassion required to truly love God's people. If we harden our hearts, we are unable to receive the LIFE SAVING WORDS FROM GOD.

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Having a hardened heart is having a kind of stubbornness that makes us immune to teaching, allergic to growing, and doomed to the same 40 year desert-fate of the Israelites of old.

Click here to check out: Hebrews 3

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TASK OF THE DAY 15:
As we work to become better Christ lovers and better people lovers, it is fitting that today we focus on our hearts.

The task for the day is to harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness (Psalm 95:8)... You've been wrestling with the same issue/mountain for long enough.; now turn north! (Deut 2:3)

You know what Christ would have you do... don't harden your heart. Do it! Turn north!

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Proverbs 7:2-3 (KJV)

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.