Devotion
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The Promises of God: Part CCCXLVI
Author
Timothy Laughlin
Published
Nov 17, 2025
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Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years.
Therefore, I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So, I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’” Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end. Hebrews 3:7-14
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years.
Therefore, I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So, I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’” Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end. Hebrews 3:7-14
God told Moses to deliver His people, the children of Israel, from their hard bondage in Egypt, a type and shadow of Jesus delivering us from the world. Moses did what God told him to do, and he led them down to the Red Sea.
As the Egyptians closed in on the children of Israel, Moses raised his staff, and that night, the sea was divided, with dry land appearing for them to cross. Their deliverance was filled with signs, wonders, and miracles, but when they entered the wilderness, they had no water and began to grumble and complain!
Those of us who have been saved and delivered from the sins of the world are also open to grumble about our circumstances, which in turn begin to harden our hearts that leads us to fall away from the faith! It was only a few weeks' journey in the wilderness, but it took them 40 years, and they still didn't enter God's rest!
“Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Hebrews 3:15
Your servant in Christ, Timothy Laughlin
Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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