if // listen

Haiti. Can’t quit thinking about it. Can’t stop my mind from running about what will be next. Hope that this stays in front of people and that we don’t go back to normal. I think about things to joke about with people or things to say to people, but it seems more often than not I just let things go right now because everything just pales in comparison to the conversations I feel like we should be having on what we will do next.

This morning I was reading in Hebrews again and these words were there, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart.”

It says that phrase three times throughout chapters three and four of Hebrews and is a quote from the Old Testament in two different places. God is beckoning us to not harden our hearts when he speaks. It weighed heavy on me today. I trembled at those words. God speaks. God will speak to me. He wants me to harken to his voice.

As I meditated on that verse and kept running it over in my head, there was one thing that hit me even harder. The Scripture says, “Today, if…”

I was good with the passage before I stumbled upon this minor major discovery. I was even praying that I would listen and respond.

Now, I’m just begging him to speak. I’m praying that I don’t quit listening, that I would stand attentive to what he has to say and always be ready to move when he does speak.

After I realized both of these truths and what God was speaking to me about today, he reminded me of Haiti again. Confidence grows that he wants to speak to the global church through this situation. Confidence grows that he wants us to harken to his voice as he leads the gloabal church to respond. Confidence grows that this is not a moment of “if” he speaks. Confidence grows “that” he is speaking and the church must step up and respond.

Today…if you hear his voice…do not harden your heart…