Unable To Enter Because Of Unbelief

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works for forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.’ As in my anger I swore, ‘They will not enter my rest.’” Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Now who were they who heart and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, if not to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Hebrews 3:7-19

Are you obstinate? Others before you have been and they refused to listen to God. It took seven plagues for Pharaoh to get the message and begin to relent. Pharaoh was foolish to harden his heart against God. Yet it wasn’t just him. The Israelites did the same thing, and today, many of us do the same thing. Even those who had seen God’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt rebelled against Him.

Today, consider whether God is speaking to you. What is He calling you to do? Is there something in your life that does not allow Him to enter in? If there is, get rid of it.

God must rule our hearts if our feet are to walk His way.

Our Daily Bread – November 21, 2005