Hardness Of Heart

Throughout the Bible, the end of an age was marked by one consistent pattern, hearts that had grown hardened to Truth. In Noah’s day, the warnings from God were disbelieved and mocked. At the Tower of Babel, human pride had hardened their hearts to their need of God, as they wanted to be their own gods, ruling over their own lives. And the disturbing last verse in the book of Judges could be written about our day today… “and everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). 

When hardness of heart reaches a certain point, it is irreversible. Their hearts no longer respond to conviction, and their prideful minds are convinced that they are always right, and they become angry, aggressive, tools of Satan, exactly what we read about in the end-times society…  “boastful, proud, abusive, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, hating what is good; treacherous, rash, conceited…” (2 Timothy 3:2-5). 

The greatest danger of this is that God gives them over to themselves…  “Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a DEPRAVED mind, to do what ought not be done” (Romans 1:28). This word “depraved” is the Greek word, “Adokimos” which means “unfit to discern right from wrong.” Just look at society and all they choose to rage about… it is nonsensical and void of any discernment. This is a sign of the closing of this age. 

 Let us all be wise to do as the Bible tells us, and ask God for His wisdom, not our own (James 1:5), and for discernment in these wicked days (1 Kings 3:9). May His Spirit help us to calmly speak Truth in a sea of angry deception and lies. And above all, may we walk humbly with our God, and serve Him with joy while we await His return. This age is closing…

(Devotional by Cheryl Hall-Laos)