Let’s listen to God’s voice and not harden our hearts.

 To not harden our hearts, we must listen to God’s word. When we move away from God and are deaf to God’s word, we become unfaithful Catholics, or even „Catholics atheist”. The people of Israel have turned their backs on God and are moving away from him when he stops listening to his voice. If we don’t stop listening to the Lord’s voice, we move away from him, showing him our backs. And if we don’t listen to the Lord’s voice, we will listen to other voices. We will become deaf, deaf to God’s word. If we all stop a little today and look into our hearts, we will see how many times – how many times! – We closed our ears. How many times were we deaf? And when the people, the community, let’s say the Christian community, the parish or the diocese, close their ears and become deaf at the word of the Lord, they will look for other voices, other masters and end up with idols, idols, which offer her the world, worldliness, society, and distance herself from the living God.

When we move away from the Lord, our heart hardens; when we don’t listen, the heart becomes more arduous, more closed in itself, stiff and unable to accept something; that is, not only closeness, but also hardness of heart“. The heart will thus live in that world, in that environment that does not benefit it. Every day he will distance him more and more from God. These two things – not listening to God’s word and a hardened heart, closed in on itself – cause a loss of fidelity. The sense of fidelity is lost. The Lord says in the first reading: «die allegiance»; and we will become unfaithful Catholics, Catholics pagans or – what is even worse – Catholics atheists, because we do not have a starting point in the love of the living God. Not listening and turning our backs, which hardens the heart, leads us to that path of unfaithfulness.   How does this infidelity manifest itself? It manifests itself in confusion. We don’t know where God is and where he is not, we confuse God with the devil“. Jesus performed miracles, did so many things to save people, and they were satisfied, happy“, yet he was accused of doing „to because he is the son of the devil, he does it by the power of Beelzebub. This is blasphemy. Blasphemy is the last word of this journey, which begins with unlistening, hardening the heart, leading to confusion, forgetting loyalty, and finally to blasphemy.

Woe to those who no longer remember the amazement of their first meeting with Jesus. Today, we can ask ourselves: ‘Will I stop to listen to God’s word? I take the Bible in my hands, and it speaks to me. Has my heart hardened? Have I moved away from the Lord? Have I lost allegiance to the Lord and live with idols who offer me worldly glory every day? Have I lost the joy of being amazed at the first meeting with Jesus? Today is here to listen: ‘Listen today to the Lord’s voice’ to pray. ‘Do not harden your hearts.’ Let us ask for the grace to listen so that our hearts do not harden.