in the power of God in your life. You will feel disheartened and may even come to believe that God does not love you or that He has abandoned you in your struggles in life. At that point, you are in danger of developing what the Bible calls a “hard heart.” A hard heart develops when people hear the truth, believe the truth, but refuse to apply the truth. It is a process that occurs over time, but a process that nonetheless follows a fairly predictable pattern: a Christian recognizes sin in his life,