"BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF!"

Hebrews 3:13-19                            (ESV)

"13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened BY THE DECEITFULNESS of sin.

14 For we have come to share in CHRIST, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

15 As it is said, "Today, if you hear HIS voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 

16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?

17 And with whom was HE provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, WHOSE BODIES FELL IN THE WILDERNESS?

18 And to whom did HE swear that they would not enter HIS rest, but to those who were disobedient?

19 So we see that they were unable to enter "BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF"."

It should be with great trepidation that we act in disobedience to a HOLY and RIGHTEOUS GOD!  Yet mankind thinks we can ignore or change HIS commands to suit our desires and accommodate what humans see as "right"!  Who do we think we are to try to hide our disobedience from HIS EYES?  Adam and Eve tried, AND FAILED, in the garden of Eden, and everyone since has continued to fail in our attempts.  

Maybe it's because we don't have an inkling of WHO GOD really is and what HE is capable of doing to us that we IGNORE HIM and HIS Word?  Why else would we allow ourselves to FALL IN THE WILDERNESS, like the children of Israel, just "BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF"?  

It will not be long until "this world's" eyes are opened and will be able to SEE that "BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF" they too have been allowed to FALL IN THE WILDERNESS!  What about you?  Can you SEE???  Or "BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF" are you moving so fast that you can't SEE TRUTH unfolding right before your eyes???