Jesus answered, 

"What did Moses command you?"

They said, 

"Moses allowed a man to write a divorce certificate and to divorce his wife." Jesus said to them, 

"He wrote this commandment

for you

because of your unyielding hearts."

Mark 10:3-5 CEB

Jesus is using their theological question designed to trap him, to reveal their own hearts.

This word is sklerokardia. A dry, hard unyielding heart. It's like the ground in my back yard.

Dry. Unyielding.

The grass is dying.

You can't dig into it.

If this is what your heart is like it's safer for a couple to be divorced - the law is an act of grace for the person in the relationship with less power when the person who's heart should be soft towards them, who should be a place of flourishing is hard, dry, unyielding, dying.

I wonder where Jesus would say my heart is like that?

A shower of rain does not soften hard ground, and a flood doesn't fix it. It needs consistent steady rain.

Just like the Pharisees.

Just like me.

Jesus wants me to have a heart that is soft, yielding to His love, and reaches out to those in my world.

#loveGod

#lovepeople

#softhearts

#letitrain