Day 25: Is Your Heart Soft?
Passage: Hebrews 3:7-12
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Hebrews 3:7-12 warns us that we should not become hardened in our hearts due to sin just like it did with the Jewish nation in the wilderness. If our hearts are hardened, we can no longer experience or see God’s work within our lives, nor receive His promises for us.

How can sin harden our hearts toward God? To name a few, sin causes us to be blinded to our lost condition (2 Cor. 4:4). Sin captures and enslaves us (Prov. 5:22; John 8:34). Sin brings forth death in our lives (Rom. 6:23). Sin is like a disease that eats away our hearts (Psa. 32:1-5). Sin is impurity, causing us to feel polluted within and outside in addition to not being able to stand before God (Psa. 51:2). Persistent unbelief in God’s promises ultimately causes us to be separated from God (Eph. 4:18).

The writer of Hebrews in verse 12 admonishes us, “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.” Is there anything that you are blind to in your life that separates you from God? What is capturing and enslaving you right now? What in your life makes you feel “dead” with God? What is eating away within you today? Do you feel polluted within and outside of yourself before God? Do you persistently not believe in God? I beseech you, please take a moment today to consider these questions and the power of sin in your own life, and pray earnestly that God will redeem you from sin through the blood of Jesus Christ.