Ears
Only ears can hear
That’s just the way God made us
If ears could see or hear
They’d certainly betray us
But when God fashioned ears
Those humble awkward things
That flop about and wiggle
On little inner springs
He made a way to tell us
How much we’d been forgiven
And then He set and tuned them
To hear His words from heaven
Oh – only ears can hear
That’s just the way God made them
Humble listening gifts
That lead us to obey Him
“Sit on your bed till your father gets home!” Was one of the most terror filled ways for me to spend an afternoon when I was ten years old. I sometimes wasn’t quite sure what I had done wrong and was even less certain of what punishment lay in store. Though often I deserved whatever spanking awaited me at my dad’s return this is not what God has in mind for our relationship with Him. He is not busy doing important stuff at the office and hoping we were good while he was away.
Instead our heavenly dad stayed home to spend time with us today. He also has planned out in advance a family adventure vacation. He can’t wait to go out with us and help us discover amazing things on our journey. He challenges us to think in new ways and learn to do new stuff. But our becoming a new man (or woman) is not about trying harder, running faster or jumping higher. In fact the new person we are asked to be is not about us at all.
Only Jesus is the true holy and righteous new man. Only He can be in us who He is calling us to be! So don’t worry about sitting on your bed till God gets home. Instead go outside and wait in the driveway because our father’s greatest delight is to come home for us give us the blessings of heaven!
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand – Bodie Thoene
I just finished reading Munich Signature for the third time (over 10 years) and this phrase jumped off the page to me. What she wrote about Hitler’s rise to power could just as well apply today in a world that seems intent on eliminating inconvenient people just as the Third Reich tried to eliminate the Jews. Only today it is found where unwanted elderly are herded into institutions and downs syndrome children are eliminated before birth. Uncomfortable opinions about the Bible are criminalized and Christians get welcomed out of virtually all public venues. Easy is just doing nothing or saying anything that might interrupt our nice sweet smooth lifestyle. But then God never called us to easy. He called us to love as Jesus did! And how did Jesus love? The answer is in the shape of a cross…
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ Matthew 25:40 ESV
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