{"id":251076,"date":"2022-02-14T02:32:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=251076"},"modified":"2022-02-14T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:03:00","slug":"the-devotion-of-hearing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/the-devotion-of-hearing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Devotion of Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Samuel answered, \u201cSpeak, for Your servant hears.\u201d \u20141 Samuel 3:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says. I show God my lack of love and respect for Him by the insensitivity of my heart and mind toward what He says. If I love my friend, I will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, \u201cYou are My friends\u2026\u201d (John 15:14). Have I disobeyed some command of my Lord\u2019s this week? If I had realized that it was a command of Jesus, I would not have deliberately disobeyed it. But most of us show incredible disrespect to God because we don\u2019t even hear Him. He might as well never have spoken to us.<br>The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me (see John 11:41). If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a tree, or a servant of God may convey God\u2019s message to me. What hinders me from hearing is my attention to other things. It is not that I don\u2019t want to hear God, but I am not devoted in the right areas of my life. I am devoted to things and even to service and my own convictions. God may say whatever He wants, but I just don\u2019t hear Him. The attitude of a child of God should always be, \u201cSpeak, for Your servant hears.\u201d If I have not developed and nurtured this devotion of hearing, I can only hear God\u2019s voice at certain times. At other times I become deaf to Him because my attention is to other things\u2014 things which I think I must do. This is not living the life of a child of God. Have you heard God\u2019s voice today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel answered, \u201cSpeak, for Your servant hears.\u201d \u20141 Samuel 3:10 Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says. I show God my lack of love and respect for Him by the insensitivity of my heart and mind toward what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}