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Be Careful Little Ears What You Hear

 James 1:9 - “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”

The Apostle James, the half-brother of our Lord, instructs us be “quick to listen.” There are many voices that compete for our attention. When I was young, we only had three television channels in our home. We had NBC, CBS, and ABC. I remember when we first signed up for cable, there were just a few channels. Today we have hundreds of channels along with YouTube and other internet streaming services. There are so many voices competing for our attention. Radio, internet radio, podcasts, and even shortwave radio all have voices competing for our attention.


When I was a child, we learned a song in Sunday School entitled, “Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See.” The second verse reads:


Oh, be careful, little ears, what you hear, 
Oh, be careful, little ears, what you hear.
There’s a Father up above looking down in tender love,
Oh, be careful, little ears, what you hear.


Who has your attention? Whose voice are you listening to? Who has your ear?

John 8:37 says, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”


We must be careful to hear the voice of the Lord. As believers, it is our responsibility to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. Revelation 2:7 says, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”


There is a teaching in the Body of Christ that believes God has gone silent, and no longer speaks today. How do we know when God is speaking? I John 4:1 from the New Living Translation reads, “Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.”


We test the words in the Word of God. If we hear something contrary to the Scriptures, it is not God’s voice. Let me encourage you to spend time in the presence of the Lord. Pray and make your requests know to God and then be quiet and listen to the still small voice. When God speaks it will bear witness with our spirits. It will produce peace in our hearts and encourage us in our hearts. 

 


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