Sunday, June 15, 2014

Healing Hardened Hearts


“Today 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).  “Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men?... The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility” (Proverbs 15:11,33).  “Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.  Repent therefore” (Acts 8:21,22). 

The only hope for hardened hearts
Is found as they obey God’s voice.
The healing that our Lord imparts
Is never forced; it is a choice. 

The hearts of men are now revealed
As in the day of provocation,
And yet by grace they may be healed,
As they repent and find salvation. 

The fear of God is the beginning
When God will heal hearts with pride. 
The Lord reproves those who are sinning,
Then shows them Christ in whom we hide.

The Lord resists the heart that’s proud,
Yet gives His grace to all the humble.
When hearts and knees to Him are bowed,
They walk in light, and shall not stumble. 

The Lord decrees to all the earth: 
Repent therefore without delay!
He gives the gift of second birth
And heals hearts that humbly pray! 

O Lord, our Savior and Physician,
We thank You for Your wondrous healing
Provided for the heart’s condition
Which You in mercy are revealing.

We pray, O Lord, for hearts yet hardened,
That they may turn at last to You
And thereby know that they are pardoned
And given hearts by grace made new.  


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