Listen!

Seems like the guys I am running with these days are all getting hard of hearing. It affects their speech too, I guess, because I have noticed that they mumble and it’s often hard to hear what they say. Old ages has it problems.

Isaiah wrote God’s words when He said, “I called and no one answered; I spoke and they didn’t hear.” (Isaiah 66:4) It’s a difficult life when we cannot hear the Word of God. I know that we sometimes miss it because those who are charged with the responsibility to preach and teach get side tracked on issues other than Truth. The clamor of distraction keeps many from hearing the “still, small voice” of God’s Spirit, and often, we are just too busy to stop and listen, hear, and understand. The last part of verse 4 in Isaiah 66 says that those who fail to hear choose evil and that in which the Lord does not delight.

Maybe it’s time to get our hearing checked!