Hello ladies
As I was having my time with God, I was thinking about the things I use to be
convicted about and I am not any more.
I had to wonder who changed there minds. Did God suddenly say oh I guess that is not very important any more I guess you do not have to take care of that, or
have I become so callused in those areas that I no longer hear the Holy Spirit in those areas any more. I am reminded of these following verses.
Jer 6:10 (NIV) "To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it."
Zech 7:11-13 (NIV) "But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and stopped up their ears. They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen... So the Lord Almighty was very angry. "When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,' says the Lord Almighty."
Mat 13:12-17 (NIV) "Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables: [from Isa 6:9-11] 'Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.' In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become callused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."
Have you ever thought about being concerned of those things that you are no longer convicted of?
There is more to hearing than ears, and there is more to seeing than eyes. You and I must beware of an open heart.
Hearing loss is so gradual that we don’t notice. We stop seeing the familiar. We stop being sensitive to the truth because we are safe “within our castle,” defending our interests. This human problem is made more intense by religious institutions. Paul’s listeners inherited the great stories of God’s work in the lives of their ancestors. They inherited the synagogue, the written word, the teachings of the rabbis. But they like too many of us stopped encountering God. They had ears that did not hear, and eyes that did not see, and hearts that were hard. The encounter with God became lost within doing there own thing.
Tell me what you think. Is this of any concern to us as we seek to know God more?
