Why Do Some People Take So Long?

[286 words] “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” — Blaise Pascal Physicist Pascal hit the nail on the head with this quote. Anyone who has taught and prayed for a loved one to obey the gospel – only to hear excuse after excuse – knows that Pascal was correct. Many people do not accept the truth because they don’t want to. The evidence of God’s existence and his saving grace is all around us.  But if they don’t want to believe, no amount of begging, pleading or logic will make them do otherwise.  This is called “hardness of heart” in the Bible. This connection with faith is seen in Ephesians chapter four. “They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of…