Have you ever considered the significance of an egg?   Everything starts with an egg. Everything!  Can you think of one living thing that does not need to fertilize an egg?  It is the most amazing of things.   The egg has an outside and inside.   Though that is stating the obvious, the inside is where the ‘good’ stuff is!!   Without accessing the inside of an egg it is worthless.    Did you know that if you freeze and egg, the inside will not freeze.   Another miracle of God.   He in His infinite wisdom made it such that in order to realize the potential of the ‘egg’ we must go to the inside.    The egg by itself has no great quality.   It needs someone or something to bring it to full potential.   The shell of an egg is  misleading.   Just because there is a shell it does not mean it is ‘good’ to use.    Realizing that the shell is the protective coating, we access the inside.   From there we go to great lengths to discover the potential of the inside.   The human heart has and outside and inside.   The ‘hardened heart’ reflects harshness.   The hardened heart is afraid to allow the development of its possabilities.   In the Book of Hebrews Chapter 3 verses7-19 17)”Wherefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you should hear his voice,  8)Harden not your hearts as at the revolt in the day of testing in the desert, 9) When your fathers tested and tried me, and saw my works 10) for forty years.   Because of this I was  angered with that generation and I said, ‘They have always been of erring heart, and have never known my ways.   11) Thus I swore in my anger, ‘They shall never enter into my rest.'”   12)   Take care, my brothers, lest any of you have an evil and unfaithful spirit and fall away from the living God.   13)   Encourage one another daily while it is still “today,” ” so that no one grows hardened by the deceit of sin.   14)   We have become partners of Christ only if we maintain to the end that confidence with which we began.   15)   When Scripture says, “Today, if you should hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the revolt,”  16) who were those that revolted when they heard that voice?   Was it not all whom Moses had led out of Egypt?   17) With whom was God angry for forty years?   Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?   18)   To whom but to the disobedient did he swear that they would not enter into his rest.   19)   We see, moreover, that it was their unbelief that kept them from entering.”

So it is, the ways of God are hidden.    We must choose to search them out.   In the heart of men and women lay the significance of our being.   We can choose to remove the ‘hardened heart’ through  the love of God through Jesus Christ.   Yet, we need to ask!    Strange though it may be the egg and the heart can both be ‘hardened,’ both by choice.   So with that said, in closing I will leave you with this thought:  Hebrews Chapter 5  verses 14-16

14) ” Since then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession of faith.   15) For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet never sinned.   16)  So, let us confidently approach the throne of grace to recieve mercy and favor and to find help in time of need.”