Adamant - refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.

Adamant. Hard-hearted. 

To resist the Word of God. How often have we been adamant in our own opinions and thoughts that God himself could not change our minds? However, God is gracious, and in his loving-kindness, he ever calls our name, and His Spirit shines in a perpetual prayer of grace for our repentance.

2 Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; 

You could say that as hard as our heart may be, God's loving stretch is as hard-headed.

As long as our life is on this earth, there is a steady and unstopping of the consistent reach of a merciful God knocking, knocking, knocking, ever knocking, like the heart doth beat, the Lord is knocking on the door of your heart.

What will we do?

 Turn our minds toward the plea of the Lord? 

Or yet harden all the more?

I have been studying this morning on diamonds, and I found this scripture that speaks to the quality of a diamond.

Zechariah 7:12

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone,

I pray that for myself and all those I love, we would allow the God of All Gods to reach through our hardness and resolute determination. That he would touch the place in us that would help us recognize his sovereignty and humbly repent and again humble our hearts and allow them to be melted in His presence.

All through scripture, you see examples of the people of God who, for whatever reason, got something in their minds and, if not for God's grace, would have been consumed for their hardness. Yet, through God's goodness and mercy finally, finally, there came a spirit of contrition and repentance was born.

Saul, the Words of Jesus speaking as the bright light shined upon him, said, "It is not easy for thee to kick against the pricks."  

Saul was determined. "I am right. They are wrong." Yet, we see that in the face of this reality, there shone a bright light and a booming voice that met him on the road to Damascus to bring conversion.

Adamant. However, when used in connection with a stone, it means a "pricking" stone, one which can engrave metals or glass. 

Jesus said, "It is not easy for thee to kick against the pricks." Saul was trying to make his mark on the world when the Desire for God was to make His mark on Saul.

Saul's transformation was not to worship another god, but to recognize His God Jehovah was Jesus. In his pursuit of being faithful to Jehovah, he persecuted the people who Jehovah was a blessing.  

What a revelation for Saul. That revelation transformed him from the great persecutor to the greatest of the apostles. The same zeal redirected.  

Lord Jesus, 

Help me with the hardness in my heart. Please help me not resist your Spirit to call me to a place of communion and oneness with you. May I more deeply say and fully desire your holy will in my life. That I could follow the example, I see in your life of humble ministry to those who to their hurt resisted you. And yet, you prayed for them. You reached for them. You even washed their feet. When you knew. You still did what you do.  

Please help me not to resist your word. Help me to humble my heart. Help me to fully repent and be cleansed of every source of hardness in my own heart.

In Jesus Name, 

In Him, By Him, Through Him, 

 Scott Phillips