Hearken

Hebrews 3 instructs us again to hear and hearken to what we’ve heard. (hearken is just a fancy word for listen)

“Today if you hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,

As in the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,

And saw My works for forty years.

Did you know…when God speaks to us, when we hear his word, when we receive good instruction, and when we see God at work in our lives…we have a responsibility to adhere to and receive all of that goodness by walking with Him in complete trust and abandonment?

Did you know…when we choose to turn away and ignore the goodness of God in his rich word and love toward us, we are provoking our Father, we are testing him, and we are not pleasing him?

God is full of goodness and mercy, he is.

God is also all about forming us into the image of his Son.

And the son of God respected, honored, obeyed, and gladly submitted to his father’s will in his life, knowing that in obedience he would experience joy and life.

In school, if we don’t respond to the learning we receive, take the test, and make the grade, we then fail, and we have to repeat the class over again…until we get it.

Something to think about…