Let the person who has ears listen to
what the Spirit says. Revelation 3:22
The man
or woman who has no inner ear, no inner silence, no inner place for hearing the
Lord is never going to be of much use in the service of the Lord, and mark you,
it must be the Lord, and we must be very careful that we do not give even good
men and good writers the place that the Lord ought to have. There is a time
when we must sweep our books aside, when we must shut ourselves up from the
voices of men, when we must get quiet with the Lord and listen, and more, we
must seek to cultivate, by the grace of God, the ear that is always open to the
Lord even when all the other sounds are around us. It is difficult, yet not
impossible, that in the raging of the street and the rush of business life the
Lord should say something; but He will only speak to those who recognize the
value of listening to the Lord and who are giving Him His place of silence to
speak when possible. The ear to hear the Lord when all other sounds and voices
are around us is prepared and trained in these times of detachment which the Lord
demands, and against which the devil is eternally active to capture the ear
again.
Now, that
is elementary (we are not seeking to be profound), but tremendously important.
You and I know, never mind how spiritually mature we are – the one object of
the devil is to capture our ear from God, to make it impossible for us to have
the silent hour and the silent ear for God. The pressing in, and all the things
which happen just when you have decided to have a little quiet time; then it is
you have to fight for the ear – you know it is true. Do you see there is
something bound up with that; the undoing of the work of the devil, the
registration of God's mind upon this universe, everything which is meant by
priestly ministry, which is bringing God in, is bound up with this: God having
the ear.
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