Don't Be A Hard Hearted Fool

“He is so cold hearted!”

“She is so closed minded!”

“Where do they get off having this self entitled mentality?”

Foot traffic and the elements of the hot sun and hard rains can compress the ground where nothing grows but weeds.  Our heart and mind can be hardened by the circumstances of the world if we are not careful.

We can allow the past, the present and even our perceptions of the future harden our heart and mind to a point where we can spiritually live in a thorny weedy patch.  We can become a living Eeyore. 

In fact that is precisely what one king became because he choose to ignore God.  He became so full of himself that bible says King Nebuchadnezzar was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagle’s feathers and his nails like birds’ claws. (Note: Daniel 4)

Sure we can go to church or listen or watch a sermon but what good is the sown word from God if the hard ground hasn’t been plowed?  What good is it? Might as well be given to the birds.  I remember going to church before I became a Christian. Did I receive anything…? No Not a thing because I had a hard heart.

When we don’t acknowledge God for WHO HE is we don’t have self-restraint.  We are seeing this now in people actions.  They are exhibiting doubt, anger, fear, depression, hate and no self-control because they don’t believe God is in control.  They are practicing what they preach- atheism. 

Their internal compass is broken and they can’t find what is true north.    

A heart and mind compressed by the cares and affairs of this life leaves them a slave to the circumstances in life.

Our soul wasn’t designed by our Creator to be to sustained by “weeds.”  It craves the food that our Creator gives… and is only sustained by Him.

Without God people will blindly eat whatever they are given without a second thought of who is feeding them these “weedy” thoughts.    

We are no different at times in our life.  At times in our life we can’t see the “who” either.  The difficult circumstances can be so great that we can’t see Satan wanting to drown us in the dark discouraging things of this life.  The man named “Job” in the bible is a good example of this.

We can’t be obligated to put our hopes and cares only in the things of life! The things of this life are temporary.  Our perspective must consist of MORE!  And this MORE, WHO IS GOD, allows us to see that LIFE consists and exists far beyond the things of this so-called life.

When what fails- fails us, God needs to remain the strength of our heart.

“May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace at all times and in every situation.” 2 Thessalonians 3:16