Hebrews 3:7-15 So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
10That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' 11So I declared on oath in my anger,
'They shall never enter my rest.' " 12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first. 15As has just been said: "Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.
October 8,1871 D.L. Moody was preaching the gospel in the business district of Chicago. That night he challenged the crowd with the gospel and then challenged them to go home and think about their response. He asked them to come back the next night and make their decision known. That night a fire broke out in the O' Leary's cow barn which began the great Chicago fire that burned much of the city and killed many of those who attended the service Moody preached. Moody was forever changed after this event he vowed to always challenge people to make a decision today because we may control our choices but we do not control the consequences. In this passage we are challenged three times, "Today if you hear my voice, do not harden your hearts." Obviously this applies to those who need salvation but this also applies to me everyday as I choose to be or not to be obedient to God's call and will for my life. What I must realize is that when I hear God's voice or feel is leading I must obey and go for it. Today as I hear from God may I be found faithful to being obedient and go after it without haste.
Father help me to hear your voice and give me the determination to obey right away.
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