What do you do with what you hear?

Acts 2 ³⁷Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, ^(AX)what shall we do?”

Peter is delivering a message of repentance for the forgiveness of sin. As he was preaching those who heard this message essentially had two choices in how they would react to what they heard that day: 1. Hear it and forget it; 2. Hear it and do something with it. It says in vs 37 that those who heard it were pierced to the heart, meaning it had an effect on them, and asked how to change their ways.

If you ever attend church you may hear a preacher get up every week and explain to you many of the same concepts that Peter was explaining on that amazing day. When you hear the words what do you do with it? Does it get down to the heart, or does it stay on the surface and wash away by the time you get home or to The Cracker Barrel? When we hear and do nothing, we become calloused to what we hear. The more this happens its like scar tissue begins to build up on the heart and becomes increasingly difficult to let it get down in there. But when you hear and do something with it, the heart softens. The more this happens the more and more soft it gets.

I pray for a soft heart to hear and do.