Do You Hear What I Hear?
Isaiah 28:23 (New Living Translation)
23 Listen to me; listen, and pay close attention.
My sister and I were in the store talking today, and we were talking about the coming year, and the possible theme at church for the coming year. We both agreed that we were a bit scared and leary over next year’s theme at church and that we were not exactly in the enthusiasm category. You see last year when the theme was the “Year of Expectation,” everybody was all fired up and excited, but there was a clause that most people missed, and that clause was the fact that it was the year 2010, ten meaning the year of governmental ORDER and TESTING! You see so many got excited about being in a place of expectation they forgot that before you can get to the blessings of God or be established in God that there was going to have to be order and a TEST or SOME TEST were coming. Many of us during watch night service missed what was being said, Jo and I had not, so we understood that this year (2010) could possibly come with its ups, downs, trials and tribulations ( although we prayed that it would skip us, because of all we had already endured). Many people did not hear what we heard, many people heard, and they were in expectation without anything else and got blindsided when the test came, because they were too busy expecting everything to be All to the GOOD…
For many of us we don’t hear all that is being said. We focus in on one portion and miss the remainder of what is being said. We hear what is good and discard what is distasteful or challenges our idea of what should be happening. God is speaking, but are we really hearing what is being said in its entirety? In most cases we have trained ourselves to focus in on what tickles our ears and makes us feel good, but everything comes with a price, and with a purpose. To many of us went into 2010 without any order and without the discipline to handle the blessing of God and we were just in expectation of the good without the work and without the test to see if we were equipped to handle what God intends for us. We have not even proven yet if we can handle the rain or the storms of life and still maintain our focus and relationship with God; so we have been expecting without the struggle… All because we didn’t hear what was being said. Whether we want to or not, we need the ability to hear. The Bible in Revelations 2:17, “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. To everyone who is victorious I will give some of the manna that has been hidden away in heaven. And I will give to each one a white stone, and on the stone will be engraved a new name that no one understands except the one who receives it.” Having the ability to hear, will give us the ability to gain wisdom, knowledge, instructions that can give us insight as to what God intends for our lives and it gives us the astuteness to pass the test and endure the trials that can bring us to a place in God that will open doors that no man could ever open or close, grant us favor that is uncommon and unheard of and bestow upon us things that man will not be able to understand.
Are we really listening to all that is being said? Do we have an ear to really hear what the spirit of God is saying to us? It is important to be able to hear all of what God is saying it can make the difference between our success and failure in the test and the journey that lay before us. God has something to say to us, He wants to make it plain and to lay out His design and will for our lives, but without the ability to hear, we will be ill prepared to understand the dynamics of what is in God’s plan and even what we may have to endure to get where we are going. Listen, for if we can listen we can hear God clearly and He can lead us up the roughest sides of the mountain and guide us through the lowest of valleys and still get us to His promise. Do you have the ear that is needed to hear?
No comments:
Post a Comment