Comments on: Calloused Hearts

By: SIllyJoe

SIllyJoe — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:22:50 +0000

I got a copy of the Message:Remix last summer….I’ve since had to duct tape the cover to keep it toegether…I use it quite often.

By: MarkT

MarkT — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 01:11:33 +0000

And I didn’t know that Bible Gateway had added the Message to its translations. I don’t own a copy yet, but Casella turned me on to it for reading chunks of the Bible at a time, when you’re not doing intensive study where NASB-type precision is better.

By: SillyJoe

SillyJoe — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:11:09 +0000

I actually was going to talk more about the calloused heart thing…but fo some reason I didn’t.

That verse really applied to me and the way I lived my life for a long time. I was a callous-hearted “church-goer”, who went through all the motions and did all the “stuff”, but it never meant anything to me.

I believe God cut away my callouses, just like the scripture says, a couple of years ago, and since then, I’ve “lived, really lived”

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:59:54 +0000

I love the all caps as well..it goes back to the scribes’ tradition of not writing out the name YHWH or Yahweh because even God’s name is too holy to write or speak. Good post though Joe! Yo Joe! But really, God knows us, He is aware of our condition of the toughening of our souls, how we guard ourselves the way we do. I wonder, God calls us to guard our hearts, but I’m thinking that even this has to be done His way..by offering ourselves to Him (Phillipans 4). It seems that most of the time we guard our hearts our own way, thus creating a calloused heart…a heart that becomes hard and unwilling to serve or be vulnerable.