Hear Him

When we learn to hear the Lord, we will hold our opinions while we stand firmly on His positions.

What do you think?  Does the Lord talk much?  Yes, He does.  He never stops talking to us.  But His talking much is not what you think. Even though the Lord is all knowing, He speaks to us with just a few words.  He doesn’t need to say much because He says only what needs to be said.

The Lord doesn’t need to talk much because He shares His position more than His opinion.  He doesn’t gossip. We should understand this, and we should be careful to hear Him when He offers His position on a thing.

There was a time when Jesus was transfigured before Peter, James and John.  Scripture says while all this was happening, Peter told the Lord, he and the others could build Him a tabernacle. Peter had an opinion about what they were seeing and what they should do.

While he was saying this, scripture says a voice was heard from heaven telling them, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.  Hear Him.” Matthew 17:5. There is a lot of stuff going on today and times are hard. Some of us are attempting to change or to transform many things that cannot be changed. And many of us wonder what we should say or do.

When we do not hear a voice from heaven telling us what we should think, we get anxious about what is happening. Just like Peter, John and James, in our anxiety and in our righteousness we become restless. When we are restless about what we don’t understand, we want to share our opinions about how we believe everyone should act.

It is difficult to Hear the Lord when we are anxious to share our opinion about what we think. When the Lord commands us to hear Him, He is saying listen to Me before you ask others to listen to you.  He is saying hold your opinion until you know My position.  Hear Me.  He wants us to share His position more than He wants others to share our opinion.

Gossip is more than simply sharing something about others that is not for us to share.  Gossip is sharing an opinion about a person or thing designed to reflect poorly on that person or thing.  The Lord does not want us to gossip about the things that we face.

Listen to Him and you will find His position to be clear.  Learn to establish your position more than your opinion.  When you do this, you will find you are less likely to speak ill about a person who has simply done what you have been blessed not to do so far.

When we hear Him, it is then that we should speak of what we have heard. But anxiety, frustration and our sense of righteousness often causes us to stop and settle on what we believe should be happening. We want people to know that God is among us, and He sees all that is going on.

That is true.  But God does not use a person’s sin to make that person look bad or to make someone else look good. God has a position on the things we do but we have opinions about the things we do.  Let’s learn to quiet ourselves and to hear Him.

Sometimes, when we want to be heard, our opinions are more harmful than helpful to others.  The Lord does not need our help with what He wants to say and to do. He wants us to “Hear Him.”  Just become we can see no heavenly action, we should not be concerned if the Lord is still among us.  He is always with us.

We should be concerned if we are still with Him.  We should be concerned that we hear Him more.  When we hear Him”, we are able to be used by Him in ways of His choice and not our own.

Proverbs 17:27-28 says, “He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.  Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace, and when he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.” Learn to hold your opinion about the sins of the world until you have learned to Hear Him. 

Our opinions will not be of any value and our witness will not be effective when we sound and act just like the people we speak of who may have stumbled. When God says to “Hear Him” He means we should be transfigured by what we hear from Him.

Learn to quiet your talk and hold your opinion so that you can Hear Him. When you do this your walk will be reflective of His talk and of His position.  Hear Him!

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