However, the point is not to let hardness of heart run rampant in your life. We will never enter into His rest this way unbelief will shut us out as well. We become complacent to the things of God refusing to obey, the result is destruction, because in essence, we walk away from God and the plan He has for us. This comes from many years of choosing to ignore this voice inside until it is but a faint echo of what was. The writer of Hebrews says if we hear God’s voice don’t be like the Israelites, hard and insensitive. The same offer of entering into God’s rest is available for us today (Hebrews 4:1). This example from Israel’s past is good for us to pay close attention to. This was His plan and desire for them but their unwillingness to believe kept them out. The result was not entering into the land He promised their forefathers. During that time they provoked and blatantly disobeyed God. The result was doing it their own way, causing them to wander through the wilderness for forty years. Because of their hardness of heart they were unwilling to rely on God and follow in the plan he had for them. They saw the mighty works of God for many years in the desert and chose disobedience instead of trusting the one who provided for them. Unbelief shut the Israelites out of the promise land. “As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.” Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief” (Hebrews 3:15-19)
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