Don't Turn A Deaf Ear Toward God . .You Need To Listen

My Utmost For His Highest

 

You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am ….I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master… —John 13:13, 16

 

“You call Me Teacher and Lord…”— but is He? Teacher, Master, and Lord have little place in our vocabulary. We prefer the words Savior, Sanctifier, and Healer. The only word that truly describes the experience of being mastered is love, and we know little about love as God reveals it in His Word. […] If we are consciously aware that we are being mastered, that idea itself is proof that we have no master. If that is our attitude toward Jesus, we are far away from having the relationship He wants with us. He wants us in a relationship where He is so easily our Master and Teacher that we have no conscious awareness of it— a relationship where all we know is that we are His to obey.”  CHAMBERS

 

I had a conversation with one of our children some years ago.  I was talking about their obedience concerning a certain matter.  To make a point, I told them that the people I worked for were really gullible.  I said “You know what they pay me all of this money to do?  They pay me to give them advice.  Isn’t that crazy?  I mean, you know my advice is not any good, and they actually pay me for it! Are they gullible or what?”  The child got my point.  They were choosing to go their own way and ignore what I had to say as if I was telling them something that would lead to their harm.  (Matthew 7:9-11) “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?  Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!” 

 

God is the Creator.  He is the source of all wisdom.  Yet, we treat what He says as if it has not value.  We have a better way.  Think about that for a minute.  You were born with the desire to go your own way.  It is only when you surrender that desire will you experience the “abundant life” in Christ.  Recognize your disobedience for what it is … sin.  Listen, in your new life you have an opportunity that the lost do not, but you will never experience the fruit of that new life if you insist in turning a deaf ear toward God. What is He saying to you today? You need to listen and then do what He says.  For your own good.  ELGIN