Some hearts are so traveled with sin, so filled with the traffic of life, so trampled by everything but God, that He can’t find a spot to get into that life. A heart that persists in hardness is lost. A heart that never gets plowed up and softened is lost and hell bound. A heart that can’t take in the Word of God is hopeless. Listen, He says to you this morning. Stop this trampling of His truth in your life; seek the Lord while He may be found. Christ’s prescription: break up that unplowed, hard soil and let God’s Word in!
This first heart was often faced by the Lord in the Old Testament times with the people of Israel. It is so hard that nothing penetrates it, yet that hardness can be broken up. Listen to what the Lord said through His prophets earlier:
Jeremiah 4:3 This is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground and do not sow among thorns. (NIV)
Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you. (NIV)
If you heard Christ’s description and said, That’s me. I don’t have any response to Jesus from my heart. I am cold and indifferent to spiritual things. That probably means you are unregenerated, unconverted, unsaved, without a personal relationship with God, and not born again.
From KGD-32d – The Hard Heart (040425AM)
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