# 284 - Today's Living Word comes from Mark 3:5, “So when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts,”
In the physical realm, hardening of the arteries is very serious and if not corrected can lead to death. In the spiritual realm, hardening of the heart is also very serious and the end is spiritual death. It is vital that we learn to keep our hearts pliable and moldable in accordance with the Word of God.
The psalmist says in Ps 96:8-11, “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, and as in the day of trial in the wilderness. When your fathers tested Me. They proved Me though they saw My work. For forty years I was grieved with that generation and said, “it is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways,” So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.”
There are serious consequences when our hearts begin to set up as concrete. Hardening of the heart occurs when we become so set in our ways that we refuse to allow the Word of God to change our actions and opinions. Do you feel like you pretty much know it all when it comes to living according to God's Word? Be careful! Statistics on abortion, fornication, divorce, remarriage, giving to the poor, among professing Christians tell a different story. Keep your heart open to change. Always be willing to receive God's gift of repentance.
The whole idea of repentance is to “think differently.” Think differently about what? Think differently about who Jesus is and think differently about the veracity of His Word.
Mt 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.
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