Attention! Attention! Attention!
In this 3 Minute PLUS video Lao di Zhi links the importance of Attention to the 95th Psalm and Hebrews 3:15 with the sewing of a quilt. As many know, it is one stitch at a time, over and over again bringing together the threads of the mind.
Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.
Hebrews 3:15
Today, if only you would hear his voice,
Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah….
Psalms 95:8
Meribah being a place of complaint and rebellion against your circumstances. This ancieint text is as true for us today as it was for the Israelites. Attention softens and helps to dissipate a complainng heart and allows you to listen and attend to what is right there.
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