An Obstinate Heart
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.
Moses goes on...
This chapter recounts the Israelites' interactions with other tribal nations as they hiked around the countryside. God wasn't giving them all of it by any means. He had made commitments as well to the descendants of Esau and Lot. Sihon was another story, however. Though Moses approached him in the same conciliatory fashion as he had the others, Sihon had an obstinate heart, and his destiny was to be conquered by Israel.
When I have an obstinate heart, am I setting myself up for destruction?
But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.
Moses goes on...
This chapter recounts the Israelites' interactions with other tribal nations as they hiked around the countryside. God wasn't giving them all of it by any means. He had made commitments as well to the descendants of Esau and Lot. Sihon was another story, however. Though Moses approached him in the same conciliatory fashion as he had the others, Sihon had an obstinate heart, and his destiny was to be conquered by Israel.
When I have an obstinate heart, am I setting myself up for destruction?
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