So, as the Holy Spirit says,
Today, if you hear his voice,
don’t have stubborn hearts
as they did in the rebellion,
on the day when they tested me in the desert.
That is where your ancestors challenged and tested me,
though they had seen my work for forty years.
So I was angry with them.
I said, “Their hearts always go off course,
and they don’t know my ways.”
Because of my anger I swore:
“They will never enter my rest!”
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that none of you have an evil, unfaithful heart that abandons the living God. Instead, encourage each other every day, as long as it’s called “today,” so that none of you become insensitive to God because of sin’s deception. We are partners with Christ, but only if we hold on to the confidence we had in the beginning until the end.
When it says,
Today, if you hear his voice, don’t have stubborn hearts
as they did in the rebellion.
Who was it who rebelled when they heard his voice? Wasn’t it all of those who were brought out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was God angry for forty years? Wasn’t it with the ones who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And against whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, if not against the ones who were disobedient? We see that they couldn’t enter because of their lack of faith. (Hebrews 3:7-19, CEB)
When you hear God’s voice, do you listen?
And by listen I mean do what God says?
The passage above speaks of a time, in the rebellion, where people heard the Spirit, but didn’t actually do what the Spirit told them to do.
And I get it. When God tells you to do something like move your family across the country to a place you have never lived and lead a people that might not want to do and or go where you will be leading them it is scary and you don’t want to do it.
It is never said to be easy to follow God and be a person of faith that hears God’s voice and does what they hear.
I follow God because even in the darkness I know I am never alone.
I try to listen and do what I hear even when I’m scared or unsure because God has never steered me wrong. Not that all of my calls have been rose gardens and all fun, they have not. But God never left me, and I was doing what I was doing for a reason.
Know you are never alone. Listen. God is calling…
Loving People. Loving God.
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