Pathway of Peace - Hearing

When we can SEE with the right kind of seeing, we can begin to HEAR with the right kind of hearing. Then we can DO with the right kind of doing.

AN ATTENTIVE EAR

2Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience  (hypokuo - hearing under – attentive hearing) of Christ,

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live;

There is a hearing and a hearing. One kind goes in one ear and out the other, it has no ground to find root and it creates no understanding. (Mark 4:12 ‘ Seeing they may see and not perceive and hearing they may hear and not understand),

Another kind of hearing leads to doing. It comes to an inclined ear, prepared to receive. It changes your will without willpower but with grace.

Mark 4:2 Then He said to them, “ Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. (Not by God)

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the word. And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

PREPARED TO HEAR

There are many ways that we can hear God speaking to us.

1 Kings 18 – Storm, fire then still small voice. The storms have been battering, the fiery trials have been purifying, and now in the stillness the voice can be heard. That doesn’t mean no more storms, or no more fire, but it does mean that finally, in the stillness, with an inclined ear, people are going to hear, and what they hear they will be given the grace to do.

Hearing God’s voice is always good. It allows our soul to live

Hearing other peoples’ voices is unpredictable. It can be good or bad.

Hearing our own voice is fairly predictable. It is usually disapproving.

A direct way of hearing is hearing the Word of Scripture. This the beauty of meditating in God’s word and letting that speak to you.