Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Psalm 95-Harden not your heart




Truth for Truckers” *May 5, 2014* Psalm 95 “Harden not your heart

     Over one half of this Psalm contains one of the most powerful anthems of praise in the Word of God. Yes, (v.1-7a) is a great pattern for our own worship of the Lord our God. But, then, the un-named Psalmist immediately turns to giving some very valuable instruction and a warning to the present generation of Believers:
“Today if ye will hear His voice: Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted Me, and saw My work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways: Unto whom I sware in My wrath that they should not enter into My rest.” (v.7b-11)

     Three important things about this generation:
1.      They saw the WORKS of God
2.      They did not know His WAYS
3.      They experienced His WRATH

     The entire generation died in the wilderness even though they saw the miraculous WORKS of God during their time in Egypt when He brought His miraculous Ten Plagues upon Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt. They saw the WORKS of God when He miraculously delivered by the blood on the doorposts. Then, He miraculously fed them and appeared to them at Mt. Sinai and miraculously gave them the Law.

     That generation in a matter of  months saw all of these supernatural WORKS of God repeatedly yet they rebelled and were sentenced to death in the wilderness because their hearts were hardened and they experienced the abnormal WRATH of God. Normally, God’s desire is to bless His faithful people!

      So, Drivers, how does this apply to us today. Every one of us can get a hard heart to the things of God. Have you been in the Word today? Have you praised and prayed and spent time talking to the Lord? When is the last time you witnessed of your salvation to someone that is lost?  Maybe your heart is hardened! If so, full and complete confession of your sin brings back sweet fellowship by the cleansing power of the Blood of Jesus! Read I John 1:7-9 and praise the Lord for His great mercy to us!

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