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Isn’t it amazing how God’s voice can cause us to harden our hearts? King Saul, when confronted with his sin, confessed and made excuses. Our lives are our choices. One choice builds upon another creating our life. The same way multiple colors are compounded to create one effect, so our choices compound together to create our lives. The Israelites chose to grieve God with their choices. Know today that if you have or are making choice which grieve God, you can stop and contemplate your decisions right now and alter course. Hear His Voice and Harden Not Your Heart. I am sorry for grieving you with my choices, attitudes, and actions. I choose now to let Your Word and Your Ways guide me to make right choices, have right attitudes, and do right actions. Thank you, precious friend for praying that prayer.

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Psalms 95:7-11 (KJV) 7 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, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Isn’t it amazing how God’s voice can cause us to harden our hearts? It would seem the one voice that would not harden our heart is the one which might. I was talking with someone Friday who mentioned the difference between two old testament people: Saul and David. David, when confronted with his sin of adultery confessed, and repented. There is no indication of David ever doing such an act again. King Saul, when confronted with his sin, confessed and made excuses. He continued to make excuses for his sins. The outcome for these two men was quite different: Saul committed suicide on the battlefield, while David died in bed with a beautiful woman keeping him warm.

Choice has become a huge part of my life in the past months. It is a theme which paints our lives. Indeed, even indecision is a choice. Our lives are our choices. I understand that some of our experiences are our of our choice control, but our reactions to those are our choice too. One choice builds upon another creating our life. In art class many years ago, I did a chalk drawing of my brother, Tim. It was a very difficult media. Before chalk I had done pencil quite successfully. Now, I was dealing with color. Do you know how many colors it takes to create Caucasian flesh tones?! Simply amazing. I found myself going over and over the same parts with new colors to get the right tone and hue. The same way multiple colors are compounded to create one effect, so our choices compound together to create our lives. Sometimes desirable, sometimes not. Sometimes we live with the consequence, and sometimes we must make decisions to alter course.

The Israelites chose to grieve God with their choices. Like king Saul, the did it consistently. Know today that if you have or are making choice which grieve God, you can stop and contemplate your decisions right now and alter course. Hear His Voice and Harden Not Your Heart. In other words, choose to do what is right.

Pray this prayer: Father, God, I do not want to grieve you. I am sorry for grieving you with my choices, attitudes, and actions. Forgive me, just as I forgive those who have wronged me with their choices, attitudes, and actions. I choose now to let Your Word and Your Ways guide me to make right choices, have right attitudes, and do right actions. Pour Your love and peace into my heart. Thank you for washing my sin away, and for remembering it no more. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Thank you, precious friend for praying that prayer. Thank you for being willing to grow and change, and be all God wants you to be.

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Thank you,

Jeffrey