I want to tell you that God used the reading of your blog and then the subsequent reading of Malachi to enrich and enlarge my study in Hebrews this week. We were in Hebrews 3:7-12 and the rehearsal of the complaints of the Israelites and their response to God’s provision and His entreaties in Malachi threw unexpected light on the passage in Hebrews!

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“ Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,

‘ They shall not enter My rest.’”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Both the scripture above as well as your post mentions “the living God.” This came home to me in a very personal way as I consider His nearness to me as He guided my reading and study this week.

I think I’ll read one of the minor prophets today. Malachi seems like a good choice since it’s the bridge between the old and new testaments–kind of like Hebrews!

: D