{"id":611,"date":"2007-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/friday-day-9.html"},"modified":"2007-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"friday-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/friday-day-9.html","title":{"rendered":"Something Better Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title<\/a> (Tyndale 2007).
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\nDay 10<\/strong>
\nThere is something better than allowing your heart to harden toward God in unbelief. It is staying soft before God and listening for his voice.<\/i>
\nRead Hebrews 3:1-19.
\nDo you find yourself feeling like a hypocrite at times\u2014going through all the motions of religion and yet finding that there is a void, a sense of deadness toward God, distance from God? Have you settled for something less than a genuine love relationship with Jesus? Do you want something better\u2014a relationship that is real, a faith that is relevant?
\nPerhaps you need to have your heart examined\u2014perhaps you\u2019ve allowed your heart to become hard toward God. That\u2019s what happened to the children of Israel as they wondered in the desert. For them, hardness of heart meant they could never enter into the rest God provided for them.
\nBased on the instruction in 3:1, in what practical ways can you \u201cfix your thoughts on,\u201d \u201cconsider,\u201d or \u201cthink carefully about\u201d Jesus?
\nRead Hebrews 3:7-14, along with Exodus 17:1-7 and Numbers 20:1-13, which describe the two events referred to in Psalm 95 quoted in Hebrews 3. What did the people in the wilderness do wrong? What was the result for them?
\nWhat is the warning in this passage? Who is it for? What are the results of not heeding this warning?
\n–Nancy Guthrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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