Isaiah 55:3 (Nlt) Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised David.
We’ve just had to buy a new landline phone as the old one kept going wrong but I find the volume isn't quite as loud. It’s a lovely phone but I do have to really listen to hear what’s being said!
I think it’s a bit like that when we’re 'on the phone' to God and we have to really listen to hear what He’s saying to us. If we’re not careful we dash into His presence, tell Him what’s been going on and how we need His help, but we forget to ‘Be still and know He’s God’, the Great I AM with all the power and wisdom we need and really listen to hear what He thinks about it all!
We’re happy to spend half an hour on the phone talking to family or friends, listening to what’s happening in their lives, in their kingdom, but perhaps you're like me and struggle to spend a bit longer listening to what God’s got to say to us about His kingdom and His answers to our problems or how much He loves us.😊
Jesus said His sheep hear His voice and we have to believe that by faith when we seem to have gone deaf! On those days when we think we’re not hearing Him maybe it’s because we’re too distracted by everything else. It’s like the person who came to God and said "I really need an answer God but I need it in the next three minutes because my favourite TV programme is coming on."!!
Let’s not be too busy or too distracted to listen! He says 'Listen, and you will find life.' Do you need to find life? God may have something to say that will change our perspective on things and change our lives but we’ll not know if we don’t really listen and come with our ears wide open as our verse says.
I need to go and do some listening. How about you?😊
Have a blessed weekend everybody.x
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