Do You Hear What I Hear?

 For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. (Isaiah 6:10) But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it." Matthew 13:15-17

"He who has ears, let him hear." - Matthew 13:9

There is only one way to hear and see what Jesus was talking about. You must be born again. That is what Jesus told Nicodemus.

"Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." - John 3:3-8

Each of us, like Nicodemus, must be born again by the Spirit. Until that happens, it is impossible for any of us to hear the Spirit and see the Truth. To understand spiritual things requires the indwelling of the Spirit of God which happens on the day of our conversion. The day we are made alive toward God by faith in Jesus. 

Don't expect the world to understand and embrace the Message.  What is the Message? That God so loved the world that He sent His Son to redeem the world by paying the penalty for sin that we might be made righteous and have eternal life by faith. Unless the Spirit of God stirs in their hearts and they yield their lives by faith in response then they will continue in their sin to their eternal destruction. 

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." - 1 Corinthians 1:18

Don't let the fear of rejection by those who don't have ears to hear be the reason to be silent in a doubting world. Be the Light. Cast the seed. Rely on the Spirit and not yourself as you go. 

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy:

"Do you hear what I hear?

Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy

Do you hear what I hear?

A song, a song, high above the trees

With a voice as big as the sea

With a voice as big as the sea"

Think about it – Pray about it – Believe it – Walk in it. Let your light shine and give God the glory.

By Faith Alone By His Grace Alone And For His Glory Alone