Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Listen for what God says, not for what you want to hear.
1 Kings 22:5: Also, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, please inquire for the Word of the Lord today.
John 2:5: His mother said to the servants, whatever He says to you, do it.
We must be careful not to speak for the Lord when He does not speak to us. Jehoshaphat was King of Judah. Ahab was king of Israel. Israel had fallen away from the Lord. They did as they pleased. Judah was still obedient to God. They did as He commanded.
Jehoshaphat wanted to know if God wanted the two kings to join together to fight against Syria. They asked 400 prophets from Israel if they should go to war with Syria. The prophets all said “yes, go up. God will be with you.” But Jehoshaphat was skeptical. So, he asked if there was really anyone there who still heard the Word of God.
When God stopped speaking to Israel, they started speaking for Him to themselves. They listened only for what they wanted to hear, not for what God wanted to say. The two kings joined forces and went to battle. Jehoshaphat lived because he sought the Lord’s desire. Ahab was killed because he followed his desire.
We do this today, especially when we are faced with what seems like a difficult situation. We set our hearts on our wants before we seek the Lord for His desires for us. We must learn to pray and to listen for what we should say and do, not for what we want to say and do.
Jesus’s mother informed Him that the hosts of the wedding were out of wine. She was not like the Israelites. She told the servants to do whatever Jesus said to do. Her desire was to hear Him and to accept what He said to do. He turned water into wine.
Sometimes, we pray for the Lord’s blessings on the things we set our hearts to do even if they are things we know we shouldn’t do. When we do this, it is more likely we will hear what we want to hear than to hear what He really says.
Learn to walk with and to live with the Lord more than to walk ahead of Him and to live with Him as a guest in your life. When you do this, you will hear His voice before you hear your own.
Choose not to worry about the things you face. Whether it is something of the flesh or of the spirit. Learn to stay with the Lord. Then He will choose to fight the battles you face so that you do not have to fight on your own. Allow Him fight for you.
Learn to keep your eyes focused on the Lord more than on your problems. You will come to see the things you face the way He sees what you face. When your eyes are on Him, His eyes will be on the things you face.
Learn to listen for what you ought to say and not for what you want to say. Have nothing that you want to do that is greater than what you ought to do. When you choose to live by your ought to, you will learn to hear Him before you hear yourself. You will hear what He says about what you want to do.
We live in a world that seemingly wants to be sympathetic to all things and to all people. To many of us this sounds like something we believe our God would want for us since we all know God is good. But we must be careful never to allow our wants to change what God’s says we ought to be and to do.
If you are going to hear what you want to hear from the Lord, you will almost never hear what you ought to hear from Him. The opinions and views we form about what we want in our flesh will almost always be contrary to the insight God’s give us about how we ought to think about our fleshly wants and desires.
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