Today, if you hear [God's] voice,
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
where your fathers tested and tried Me,
though they had seen what I did. (Psalm 95: 1-5, 7b-9, NIV)
The Biblical metaphor of "hardening one's heart" aptly describes the gradual process that takes place in a relationship when we stop listening, turn away, or become self-absorbed. This may happen in our relationship with God, as it did for the Hebrew people. Quakers use the word "tender" to describe the opposite spiritual process of becoming more sensitive to God's voice. How do you keep your heart tender before God?
-- E. Glenn Hinson and Stephanie Ford in The Spiritual Formation Bible
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