Hello Everyone
God inclines His ear and listens. Psalm 116:1-2. During my counselling course, the first skill we were taught was active listening because one of the greatest needs in every human being is to know they have been heard and understood; that the person they are speaking to is attentively listening. When it comes to God, we can be confident that He does not miss one prayer be it our spoken or silent words. God inclines His ear and listens.
It is quite miraculous to think that the God of the universe, who is beyond time and space actually listens to us. Here is this majestic, incomprehensible, uncontained, transcendent God who holds the cosmos together with precisional perfection, yet He intentionally stoops down and inclines His ear and listens to us. God has given us an open invitation to talk with Him any time we wish and to bring before Him any matter we hold in the prayer house of our hearts.
It’s no small thing to have the ear of our Creator. It must be like a continual rush hour in God’s throne room with millions all praying at once, all needing God to respond. But imagine if God required us to apply to Heaven’s centre management to get a Kingdom security pass to be permitted entry into His presence. Or, if He got out His cosmic-sized clock, gave us a time limit to talk to Him, and if we went one second over our allocated time, His universal autopilot kill switch would simply terminate our time in His throne room. Or imagine if God had some royal protocol for how we addressed Him where we could not laugh, cry, sing, seek, plead, murmur, groan, whine, ask, express love, or talk His ears off. What if God only partially listened to us, secretly yawning when He got bored with us, drifting off into the sunset He just made. God doesn’t put His noise-cancelling headphones on so He can’t hear all the cries coming at Him all at once and nor has He sound proofed heaven’s rooms so our voices only ever hit the outer walls of His courts. No! it is just the opposite. God lovingly and patiently invites us to enter His presence through our great high priest, Jesus, to pour our hearts out in whatever state we find ourselves, whenever we want and for however long we need. God inclines His ear and listens to every single word.
The fact that God inclines His ear and listens is a unique privilege and one we must never take for granted. It’s not like God has to listen to us. The truth is He desires to listen to us, and His hearing heart is always open.
So, friends, get your “God listens” on today.
Best days to come.
Wen