What are you listening to?

I sat at lunch last week with a friend and he commented that his wife hears from God on a rare occasion but he has never heard from God. I suspect that is consistent with the story of most men.

What intrigues me about this is that once we start learning that the God that created every living thing, the God that rescues us in our times of trouble, the God that knows our name and the numbers of hair on our head, is the same God that roars like a lion and speaks daily.  We see God's works every day.  Yet our ears are not tuned into to hear him.  Why is this?

It's actually quite simple.  God speaks and yet the world drowns Him out.  He gives us instruction on how to hear Him and we do not read those instructions or implement them into our daily routine.  Our busyness gets in the way.  

God gave us His words to read, and then He gave us the Holy Spirit to shape our thoughts to understand in ways that man cannot explain. We know this is true, but do we pursue this truth by reading the very words God gave us to read?  Or is reading the Bible only for the Sunday pastor to do and let us know what the words say?  If we wait for Sunday to be told what God said, it is difficult to hear from God directly. 

God has words for each of us.  These words are not often communicated by another person - unless of course, you are speaking to a prophet.  And yes, those do exist.

In Isaiah 50:4 it says "God awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens my ear." 

Our ear is awakened every day by God. The world is ready, able and willing to fill our ears so that all we hear is the world.

Stop for a bit today. Pick up the Bible and open it to wherever it falls open and start reading. Shut out the world and read. God will do the rest. The more you practice this habit, the more tuned in you become to what God wants to tell you.