Therefore, do not be calloused in heart as the people of Israel were: anytime they faced any contradiction or temptation in the wilderness their response immediately revealed their irritation, rather than their persuasion in God’s belief. 9 Your fathers continued to scrutinize me suspiciously, examining me as though my intentions with them could not be trusted, even though they were eye-witnesses of my miraculous works for forty years.
— Hebrews 3:8-9 (TMB)
The Israelites allowed their hearts to become hardened and a hardened heart does not trust God. It challenges God to see if He will come through. The choice is ours: Will we allow or resist a hard heart?
All of us have life experiences that often seem to contradict whom we have believed God to be. These experiences affect our heart. That’s the reason we have to be conscientious about what we let in. Whatever is allowed in affects us and becomes evidence – positive or negative. Evidence comes in through the five senses and through our emotions and it makes an imprint on the heart – information plus emotion.
Time and again, the Israelites wailed against the Lord and Moses. Instead of looking at God’s provision, remembering (re-experiencing God’s provision, what He had done) they saw the need. They did not see His provision, so they cried out and complained, thus hardening their hearts.
How can this be? We rationalize that if we had seen those things in person, we would stand amazed and in awe of God, trusting Him implicitly. But life doesn’t work that way because things that come to us in the five senses, DO NOT convince our heart.
“The heart sees what the eyes do not see.”
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