- They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. Zechariah 7:12 – Diamonds are known to be so hard that no normal tools can cut into or engrave them like most other stones. This is the type of stone scripture uses to describe their heart towards God. One that was so hardened to the words God was speaking to them. My prayer is today we all soften our hearts to Him. Maybe your story right now is a complete hardness towards God, maybe though it’s just hard in certain areas you don’t want Him messing with in your life. Either way, let God speak there and let Him work on you there. Soften yourself to what He has to say. If His Word has the power to speak a universe into existence, can you imagine what allowing Him to speak into your life could bring? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1121
- …saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?” Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?” Zechariah 7:3-5 – When Solomon’s temple was burning down by the Babylonians the people of God mourned the loss of the temple and every year during the 70 year exile at the time of year it was burned they fasted and mourned greatly. Yet, they weren’t in exile anymore and the temple was rebuilt, so they are asking if God will allow them to stop mourning. God though speaks and reminds them this mounting wasn’t anything He commanded them to do, so they weren’t in obedience to Him this whole time and it was for their sake, not His, they were doing all this. It causes us to really ask of ourselves are we doing any of our “great” services for the Lord truly for our own glory rather than God’s? Why are we serving, stepping up, sharing, and giving? Is it for God’s name to be greater or our own in the eyes of those who see us serve? It’s so easy to fall into this trap of serving God for our own glory to grow. Let’s be willing to do a heart check and establish if why we serve is at all for our own glory. If so, make a change. Maybe that’s stepping away or changing how you handle yourself in that position. Whatever we do, in word or deed, should be done all for the glory of God. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2116
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