Hardened Heart

I started my reading today thinking, "What an idiot..." regarding Pharoah. "How could he be so stupid?"
But by the time I finished my reading, I felt like God could make the very same statement about me! I have witnessed the power of God in my life and in things around me - and I still do not completely submit and obey. What is wrong with me?
The Bible says God hardened Pharoah's heart.
Has God hardened MY heart?

In fact, has God hardened everyone’s' hearts (because everyone sins)?
Who's to blame, the woman who exercises her choice to kill an unborn child, or the governing body ("we the people" in the USA) who gives her that choice? Is it Pharoah's or my fault that we sin, or God's fault for giving us a choice? Or is there REALLY any choice at all?
Now we may come to an understanding! If we have no real choice, then INDEED WE ARE SINNERS! Truly we have no choice in the matter regardless of how good we think we are (or can be). And, to deliver that "humble pie" God demands perfection!
Unfair? Well, that simply depends on who makes the rules - and that WHO is God! He designed us with a built-in attraction to the fulfillment only He can give. It is a match made in ...well, heaven!

I could fuss, as a created being, at my Creator, but what good would that do? Ever how God made me, He did so with one thing in mind - that I would experience HIM in His fullness in every circumstance and opportunity my created nature affords.

Hmm... now what have I started?

Father, I need You. And whatever it is You have created me to be, I know it is to have a relationship with You through Jesus Christ. I confess my ignorance of all things spiritual. You are God and I know my only fulfillment is in You.