#hard-hearted

Devotional for March 30

"Yea, He loved the people." - Deuteronomy 33:3

AND what were the people whom He loved? Poor, oppressed, rebellious, stiff-necked, hard-hearted, unworthy creatures. Just such are His people by nature now. Such are we. Yet He loves us; pities us; and distinguishes us from others around us. He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; and with Him He will freely give us all things. Though He has not yet all His people with Him, yet He has Jesus sitting at His right hand, who is their Representative; the express image and exact likeness of His elect. All the rays of His love centre in Him, who is the Head of His body the Church. All the streams of delight empty themselves into Him and through Him flow down to every believer on earth. As He loveth Jesus so He loveth us; while He loveth Jesus, He will love us; for Christ and we are one. What is done to us, is done to Him; and what is done to, or bestowed upon Him, as man and Mediator, is done to and bestowed upon us. O glorious mystery of infinite and eternal love! O direct my heart into this love of God!

4 And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel— 6 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to…

Pharaoh thoughtthe plagueswere the problem He wouldn’t love those at riskPlagues resurged He’d yell & scream about the plaguesUntil his own son died But really GodYou knewThe hardened-heart of the matter Selah Melt our hearts So we can end the plaguesWe prayAmen

18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart

Ephesians 4:18

Somethings in life seem so easy to me now, that is until I try explaining them to my kids. An example is blowing a bubble with bubble gum. I can do it without thinking about it. However when I have been asked by my kids how to do…

Meaning: Without regret or guilt. Never ending or improving (something unpleasant), relentless. Synonyms: Heartless, pitiless, merciless, ruthless, callous, cruel, hard-hearted, inhumane, unmerciful, unforgiving, unfeeling, relentless, unabating, inexorable, unstoppable, unremitting. In Hindi: निर्दय, बेरहम, क्रूर  Use: His behavior was remorseless after hearing his jail sentence. Our friendship…