“You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” Matthew 13:14-15.
As I was considering the word callous this morning I couldn’t help but to notice how closely spelled it is to the word callus. A callus is a thickened layer of skin caused by repeated pressure or friction. I am sure it hurts at first, but we become tolerant to the discomfort. Eventually, we do not even notice it is there…it is void of feeling and sensitivity. Our hearts can develop calluses forming calloused hearts.
I have written many times about the darkness for which I traveled when my daughter was in her drug addiction. My heart was repeatedly under fire, creating immense friction in the deepest part of my soul. Somewhere along the way, my heart became callous. It became tough to the tenderness of God and what He was trying to chisel upon my heart. He wanted my sight and hearing to become perceiving and understanding. He never intended on me to build a heart of tough places.
My callous heart led me into areas of sin as a response to my daughter’s choices. I didn’t plan it of course but Satan did. When the temperature of my life rose in feverish degrees, the pain rose with it. The constant rubbing of heartache formed a callus upon my heart and things I used to know and understand became detached for me. My callous heart had developed its own eyes and ears and Satan was ecstatic for the desensitization!
Any emotion that is not given up to God will be exaggerated and exploited by Satan. He will massage, rework and remold our belief system when we are in our darkest valleys. We cannot allow him access to our heart to toughen and repeatedly rub lies into our thinking. We will start believing the lies and be desensitized to the Holy Spirit. In order to hear with our hearts we must turn away from temptations and face the One who will heal our hearts and file away our heart calluses.
I praise God for His forgiveness of a callous heart and for His love that restores and renews the toughest of hearts.
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