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The Rock that Crushes Hearts of Stone

 


Proverbs 20:24 ‘A man’s steps are of the Lord, how then can a man understand his own way?’  Jeremiah 10:23 ‘It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.’  These are very fascinating verses of scripture, it means that we are mere mortals and we do not even understand our own ways. Which brings me to the question, so who is directing your life?  Man doesn’t have the capacity to direct the course of his life by himself without help from the supernatural realm, so it is either the devil is directing one’s life or God is. If we are but mere mortals, and have this great limitation is it not wisdom to hold on tight to the Rock? The eternal Rock of ages, and King of all Kings, Jesus Christ.

When we allow God to take control of our lives and yield ourselves to Him, He will direct us but if we are not deliberate about seeking Him and walking with Him fully the devil will be the one directing our lives. Isaiah 64: 7 And there is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you. To gain direction from God doesn’t happen automatically, there is a calling on His name, a stirring up of ourselves and a taking hold of God to do. We stir up ourselves by praying, studying God’s word and seeking God’s face, we have to be deliberate about following God completely and obeying His instructions. Many of us have done things our way for so long that we cannot even hear God’s voice anymore, but he is still calling out to us, prodding us, sending people to us, doing all that He can just to catch our attention, but our hearts are so hardened we cannot hear nor see. Jer6: 10 ‘To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Indeed, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot give heed’.

Romans 2:29 ‘Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised- in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see it’s not the cut of knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew and recognition comes from God not legalistic critics’. It is not the title that makes you a Christian, it is not how religious you claim to be that makes you a Christian, it is not just your outward appearance or your good manners, it is the heart, a heart that yields completely to God that makes you a true Christian. If our hearts are hardened because we still cannot hear God, how then can we gain direction for our lives. It only means the devil is the one directing that life, so it cannot end well because the devil only comes to steal, to kill and to destroy.

If our hearts are hardened, we reject God and His word, we reject the Rock that is higher than us. And we receive God’s judgement Matthew 21: 44 ‘And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.’  My brothers and sisters , it will be a terrible thing to experience the judgement of God but it is coming soon for those who have rejected his word and whose heart remain hardened like a stone, Jeremiah 9: 23-24 ‘ Thus says the Lord, “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me ,that I am the Lord exercising lovingkindness ,judgement and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight says the Lord’. If our hearts are as hard as a stone, how can we know Him and understand Him. God will crush to powder every stony heart and there will no remembrance of him. How do you want the next phase of your life to be? It depends on who is in charge, God or Satan.

Today let us cry out to God to give us a heart of flesh so that we can yield completely to the Rock that is higher than us all and find safety for our souls.

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