Hard Hearts

Psalm 95:6-8
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Hard hearts and hard heads cannot worship the Lord. A stone is no substitute for bread. How many will offer up an ice cube to God and call it worship? The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

If we would worship and bow down, then our stony hearts must be made into hearts of flesh. God wrote the law on stone tables once. Now, God writes his law on fleshy tables of the heart. And this shows us why hard hearts are hardened. Sin is transgression of the law. Sin hardens the heart. Do you have a hard heart? Sin turns your ear from hearing the law. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets. (Zechariah 7:12)

Confess your sins. Ask God to turn you once again. Ask God to give you a tender heart once again. Come thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace.

Jehovah is your maker. Is He your God? Are you the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand? Here is the sign: My sheep hear my voice. Do you hear his voice? Then harden not your heart.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.