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TEXT: Hebrews  3:13

But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin .

TODAY is the only day in your lifetime that you  have to make the right decision; yesterday is gone, and tommorrow is God's. 

God's word encourages us to exhort one another daily.  The reason for  daily exhortation is to prevent the hearers from being  hardened through the deceitfuness of sin.

New Living Translation renders the text thus:

 _You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God (Hebrews. 3-13)_ .

 Sin has the capacity to deceive you and to harden your heart against God. Watch it! Today always come with the opportunities of hearing God's Voice. "Today" is the time frame in which the Voice of God is being heard for a walk in obedience. Your "Today" comes with a  command for you to obey.  To miss God's voice (command) is equivalent  to missing your Inheritance in God. (Hebrew 4:7-10, Heb 12:7).

The Israelites missed the opportunity to obey the voice of God  in their own  "Today". They provoked  God  through unbelief and disobedience.

Hebrews 3:15-16 Says _While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses._ 

So, anytime anyone is deceived by the deceitfulness of sin, such a person's heart becomes hardened, and when the heart is hardened, God's voice is being rejected. Once God's voice is being rejected, provocation will set in.

Are you hearing God's voice Today? Please do not harden your heart. Don't allow sin to destroy you, and cheat you of your inheritance in Christ.

When you hear an instruction from God's word, when you are convicted in your heart, when you are confronted with the truth: These are the times you are hearing God's voice, and God expects you to obey.

"Today" if you are in the habit of not responding  to the nudges and still small voice in your conscience,  you are being lured by deceitfulness of sin. This will lead to hardness of heart towards God.

God's Grace is available TODAY. It is never too late for you to retrace your steps back to the Lord and to start a fresh  journey with your Saviour TODAY.

 Bible Reading.

Hebrews 3:7-19.

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