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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