Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
         "Today if you hear His voice, 
  do not harden your hearts as when they provoked me,
   as in the day of trial in the wilderness."

HEBREWS 3:7-8 NASB

I am ashamed to say that I have lied about receiving a page or call stating that my battery died or I was out of range when I was neither. I just did not want to take that particular call from that particular person.

Ever ignore God? Ever feel the tug of the Holy Spirit and still not act? For me, sometimes this is a conscious choice. I do not want to do it (whatever it happens to be) and so as I hear the call of a man to reach out to, an apology to extend, a risk to be taken. I minimize my role. I question whether or not this is truly The Spirit calling or just a voice in my head. The Lord will often speak very clearly to me. Regardless, I often ignore this crystal clear calls.

There are also times when I wake up and realize that I have unconsciously hardened my heart. I have stopped listening over time.

Screening your calls is one thing. Do you act when God asks you to do something? When I say "asks" I am not talking about through a burning bush per se. At times, the tug of the Spirit is unmistakable.

K