MANY people smoke day after day, month after month, year after year and all of a sudden their ability to breathe is impacted and the lungs become hard. A lung is supposed to be soft and pliable but when a person smokes like that, their lungs become hard and the air can\u2019t penetrate them.<\/p>\n
You can read the Bible until you are blue in the face, but if it is being read by a hard heart, the Spirit won\u2019t penetrate it.445<\/p>\n
[Bible, Use of; Spiritual Maturity, Growth]<\/p>\n
1 Sam. 6:6; Prov. 28:14; Matt. 13:15<\/p>\n
SOME people go to the podiatrist because they need him to cut off a callous where their skin has gotten really hard. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t still have soft skin; it\u2019s just that it\u2019s been covered over for so long, they can\u2019t feel it anymore.<\/p>\n
When you and I have gone an extended time away from God, a callous can grow, so that you don\u2019t feel the desire to be close to God. It\u2019s not that the desire isn\u2019t there. A new nature exists for Christians and the new nature always is feeling God. The reason a person might not feel the desire is because they are calloused. Their heart has become hard, many times due to ungratefulness and discontent.446<\/p>\n
[Ungratefulness]<\/p>\n
Isa. 29:13; Mark 7:6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MANY people smoke day after day, month after month, year after year and all of a sudden their ability to breathe is impacted and the lungs become hard. A lung is supposed to be soft and pliable but when a person smokes like that, their lungs become hard and the air can\u2019t penetrate them. You … Continue reading “HARD
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