Samuel
answered, "Speak, for Your servant hears." —1 Samuel 3:10
Just because I have listened
carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen
to everything He says. I show God my lack of love and respect for Him by the
insensitivity of my heart and mind toward what He says. If I love my friend, I
will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, “You are My
friends…” (John 15:14).
Have I disobeyed some command of my Lord’s this week? If I had realized that it
was a command of Jesus, I would not have deliberately disobeyed it. But most of
us show incredible disrespect to God because we don’t even hear Him. He might
as well never have spoken to us.
The goal of my spiritual life is
such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and
know that God always hears me (see John 11:41).
If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion
of hearing. A flower, a tree, or a servant of God may convey God’s message to
me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not
that I don’t want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my
life. I am devoted to things and even to service and my own convictions. God
may say whatever He wants, but I just don’t hear Him. The attitude of a child
of God should always be, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” If I have not
developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God’s voice at
certain times. At other times I become deaf to Him because my attention is to
other things— things which I think I must do. This is not living the life of a
child of God. Have you heard God’s voice today?
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