As a continuation of the last post, I will again use the term "solemn". As believers, we must be all about living and speaking Christ to unbelievers! But as we do this, we must also be much about watchfulness of our own hearts. For while I used the last post to propose the condition of the heart without God, the passage from Zechariah actually refers to the heart that had supposedly been submissive to Him. These five characteristics were being lived out by God's own people!
We must be much in prayer for our hearts to be devoted to obedience or we may find ourselves manifesting some or all of these traits: refusal to pay attention, turning stubborn shoulders, stopping ears from hearing, making our hearts like a "diamond" and in so doing, hearts not hearing: deaf! And what are we missing with deaf hearts? The law and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent by His Spirit through the former prophets.
It is a "dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:31). This is solemn truth indeed but a needful reminder.
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