Are We Listening to God?
The Lord has a way of getting our attention, but we must respond. God expects us to listen to His word. As a result, He promises us rest: a time of refreshing. Yet, we may learn from those who were not listening. For, when we do not listen, God will use His word to bring us back: to get our attention, as is explained in Isaiah 28:11-13,
“with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, 12To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,” And, “This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear. 13But the word of the Lord was to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little,” That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.”
Therefore, God speaks to us a little at a time that we may hear Him.
We are told to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, our mind, and our soul. Devotional reading of Scripture speaks to our heart. Systematic study of Scripture speaks to our mind. In our most desperate times, when we cry out to God, we will find Him speaking to our soul from His word. These times are when He comforts us through our pain. Comprehending Scripture, then, requires the Spirit of God to speak to the very essence of who we are: our ‘might’. We should also consider the power, or ‘might’, of God’s word, as defined for us in John 1:1-2
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God.”
Indeed, the Word of God encompasses all who God is, and is in fact: God. Further, we should realize that to know God is eternal life. Therefore, it would require an eternity to know God. Our eternal life begins when we first believe. We begin to learn who God is by first knowing His Son, Jesus: the Word of God. God speaks to us through His Word, His Son, a little at a time that we may know Him.
