WITNESS
2-17-13
THESE HARD HEARTS
Have you ever run up
Against a hard heart
A heart that no matter what you say or do
You just can’t penetrate
I have
Too many times to count and enumerate
That is the nature of this world
The nature of people
Probably always has been---always will be
Moses ran up against
The hardest of hearts
When he ran up against Pharaoh
In Exodus
God calls Moses
From within a burning bush
And tells Moses
To go to Pharaoh
On behalf of his people---the Israelites
And tell him to let them go
Moses questions God---“Who-who-who am I……..” ( Moses stuttered )
To go on behalf of my people
And Moses runs into perhaps
The most hardened heart
That ever lived---PHARAOH
Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding
And the Lord
Turns the waters into blood
But pharaoh still refuses---
He has a hard heart
“If today you hear his voice
Harden not your heart”
Hebrews 3:8
The Lord sends a second---a
third
And even a fourth plague
Plagues of frogs
Plagues of Gnats
And plagues of flies
But he-Pharaoh is UNYIELDING
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS
Still further plagues come
The death of livestock---
Boils-hail-and even locusts
But Pharaoh continues to be
unyielding
The Lord continued to make Pharaoh’s
heart hard
Because he wanted
The Israelite people to believe in him
He wanted them to KNOW
That his name is I AM---THE GOD OF MIRACLES
Harden NOT your hearts
“Therefore God has mercy
On whom he wants to have mercy
And he hardens
Whom he wants to harden” Romans 9:18
Finally Pharaoh says,
“Go worship the Lord
Even your woman and children may go with you……..” Exodus 10:24
But Pharaoh changed his mind yet
again
Finally the Lord
Sent the last plagues
And God struck down
Every first born male of Egypt
But protected
The Israelite first-born males
And the Israelites fled
Finally got away---through GOD’S MIRACLE
The parting of THE RED SEA
And so today---out in the world
When we seemingly
Run into hard heart after hard heart
LET US REMEMBER
How the Lord
AIDED Moses and the Israelite people
And let us know
That if we ourselves are PENETRATED
WITH DEVOTION TO THE LORD’S DIVINE HEART
We too can labor with marvelous success
Like the commercial says---
“Keep your heart open and love will find a way”
“You yourselves
Are our letter
Written on our hearts
Known and read by everyone
You show
That you are a letter from Christ
The result of our ministry
Written NOT with ink
But with the SPIRIT
OF THE LIVING GOD
NOT on tablets of stone
But on tablets of HUMAN HEARTS” Romans
3:2&3
Because GOD IS LOVE
Like Pharaoh---these hard hearts
ARE GOING TO FALL
Robert P. Wallman
1-20-12
Ps WITNESS 2-17-13
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