Friday, April 17, 2020

Hardened heart or thanksgiving?

April 18, 2020


I read a very good devotional on the Charles Stanley/In Touch app yesterday.  (If you'd like an app with a daily devotional and/or sermon, this is a great one to put on your phone.) It sure applied to me and my attitudes.  It talked about a hardened or apathetic heart and the cure for it, which is to see God at work and then to give Him thanks.

God provided for the Israelite's needs time and time again.  They quickly forgot that He had provided for them and would complain.  God then said 'enough'. I don't want to loose God's love and compassion and help and get a hardened heart. Do you? Let's be thankful and remember God and all He has done for us and give Him THANKS!

Psalm 95 New Living Translation (NLT)

Psalm 95

Come, let us sing to the Lord!
    Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
    Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
For the Lord is a great God,
    a great King above all gods.
He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
    and the mightiest mountains.
The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
    His hands formed the dry land, too.
Come, let us worship and bow down.
    Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
    for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
    the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!
The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,
    as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
    even though they saw everything I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
    They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath:
    ‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”

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