For he is our God; and we are the
people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as
in the day of temptation in the wilderness. Psalm 95:7, 8.
No man can even once devote his
God-given powers to the service of worldliness or pride without
placing himself on the enemy’s ground.... Every repetition of the
sin weakens his power of resistance, blinds his eyes, and stifles
conviction....
The Lord sends us warning, counsel, and
reproof, that we may have opportunity to correct our errors before
they become second nature. But if we refuse to be corrected, God does
not interfere to counteract the tendencies of our own course of
action. He works no miracle that the seed sown may not spring up and
bear fruit. That man who manifests an infidel hardihood or a stolid
indifference to divine truth, is but reaping the harvest which he has
himself sown. Such has been the experience of many. They listen with
stoical indifference to the truths which once stirred their very
souls. They sowed neglect, indifference, and resistance to the truth;
and such is the harvest which they reap. The coldness of ice, the
hardness of iron, the impenetrable, unimpressible nature of rock—all
these find a counterpart in the character of many a professed
Christian. It was thus that the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh.
God spoke to the Egyptian king by the mouth of Moses, giving him the
most striking evidences of divine power; but the monarch stubbornly
refused the light which would have brought him to repentance. God did
not send a supernatural power to harden the heart of the rebellious
king, but as Pharaoh resisted the truth, the Holy Spirit was
withdrawn, and he was left to the darkness and unbelief which he had
chosen. By persistent rejection of the Spirit’s influence, men cut
themselves off from God. He has in reserve no more potent agency to
enlighten their minds. No revelation of His will can reach them in
their unbelief.
Unbending principle will mark the
course of those who sit at the feet of Jesus and learn of Him. ~Our High Calling, by E.G. White
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