There was a time when Jesus asked his disciples – Is your heart still hardened? I have read this so many times and have asked myself whether I have a hard heart also. So I began to search the meaning of this phrase – hard heart. The Greek word used here is from the root word ‘poros’ from which we get the English word ‘porous’. The Greek word was used to describe a type of porous rock. A porous rock holds nothing, everything goes through it. Jesus was thus saying to his disciples – Is your heart still porous? Eyes and cannot see?, Ears and you cannot hear? It was never about a heart of stone or a heart of flesh, because the word translated as flesh has the root word ‘ basar’ meaning fresh, rosy, full of joy, cheerful.
Jesus was saying that we cannot continue to have porous hearts that allow the showers of heaven to leak out, but hearts that retain and become rosy, fresh and full of joy. Only God can change your heart if you ask him.